Epsom college 1900-1939: consultants, senior medical officers of health, and military doctors

Purnell, Richard Hugh (born 1911). [1921-1929].

Quinlan, Anthony Gray (1921-1981). [1933-1939].

Reckless, David (born 1916-). [1930-1933].

Reese, John Mansel (born 1906). [1918-1925].

Reid, Edgar Richard (born 1924). [1938-1942].

Reid, John Lewis (1909-1994). [1920-1928].

Richards, Brian (1934-2003). [1947-1952].

Richardson, Peter John (born 1939). [1953-1957].

Rigden, Brian George (born 1914). [1925-1932].

Rivers, Nigel (1922). [1936-1940].

Robb, Geoffrey Hugh (born 1936). [1949-1955].

Roberts, Allan Thomas Marsh (1914-1999). [1925-1933].

Robertson, John Richard (born 1939). [1953-1957].

Robinson, James Milner (born 1937). [1950-1956].

Robinson, William Michael (born 1935). [1948-1952].

Rocyn-Jones, Gwyn (born 1903). [1917-1922].

Roe Peter, Watney (born 1916). [1929-1933].

Rosborough, Desmond (born 1932). [1945-1951].

Roualle, Henri Louis Marcel (1915-2007). [1923-1932].

Russell, John Noel Usher (born 1904). [1919-1923].

Salkeld, Charles Roy (1902-1989). [1916-1920].

Salmon, Harold William (1909-1986). [1920-1928].

Salmon, Michael Anthony (born 1935). [1948-1953].

Sandison, Professor John (born 1927). [1940-1945].

Sanderson, Charles Joseph (born 1901). [1916-1919].

Sanford, Denis Astley (1912-2006). [1923-1931].

Sankey, Arthur Octavius (born 1920). [1933-1938].

Savage, Denis Christopher Langley (born 1932). [1945-1952].

Savin, John Andrew (1935-2006). [1948-1953].

Scott, George Walter (1923-2007). [1940-1941].

Scott, Peter Milton (born 1932). [1945-1950].

Scott, Thomas Gilbert (1926-1995). [1939-1944].

Sears, Richard Tankard (born 1924). [1937-1942].

Sheerboom, Derek John (born 1924). [1937-1941].

Shepherd, Peter Douglas Warwick (born 1921). [1934-1939].

Shepherd, Rolf Carter (born 1926). [1940-1944].

Sherwood, Martin Paul (born 1916). [1930-1933].

Sims, Colin David (born 1938). [1950-1955].

Sladen, Gordon Edward George (born 1936). [1950-1954].

Slee, Ivor Patterson (born 1935). [1950-1954].

Smith, Ivor Seager (born 1933). [1948-1952].

Peter, Smith (1916-1995). [1925-1934].

Smyth, Colonel Edward Hugh Jackson (1913-2005). [1928-1930].

Soltau, David Henry Kenneth (1920-2002). [1934-1938].

Southgate, John (born 1922). [1936-1941].

Sowry, George Stephen Clive (1917-2002). [1931-1935].

Stanley-Jones, Douglas [formerly Jones] (born 1905). [1919-1922].

Stansfeld, Alfred Gimson (1916-2002). [1928-1935].

Stephens, Richard Russell (born 1921). [1934-1938].

Stephenson, Walter Henry (1912-2008) [1925-1930].

Stovin, Peter Geoge Ingle (born 1925). [1939-1944].

Strang, Francis Alexander (born 1935). [1950-1953].

Struan-Marshall, John Lawrence (born 1922). [1936-1940].

Stubbs, John Richard Campion (born 1933). [1947-1952].

Sunderland, Robert Slater (born 1921). [1933-1938].

Sutherland, Thomas Worsley (born 1916). [1926-1932].

Sworn, Basil Roy (1901-1968). [1913-1919].

Sylvester, Derek George Holden (1922-2004). [1935-1941].

Tasker, John Holmes (born 1917). [1926-1935].

Tate, Robert James (born 1939). [1952-1956].

Tattersal, Peter Ewart Romney l (1915-1982). [1926-1933].

Taylor, Kenneth Herbert (1915-1972). [1928-1933].

Theobalds, John Richard (1923-2002). [1938-1940].

Thomas, Anthony (born 1939). [1952-1957].

Thomas, Daniel Lewis Charles (born 1921). [1934-1940].

Thomas, Hugh James McKim (born 1932). [1945-1950].

Thomas, Keith Alistair [afterwards Boughton-Thomas] (born 1904). [1919-1922].

Thompson, Keith Stewart (born 1907). [1921-1924].

Thornton, Reginald Marcus (born 1911). [1922-1928].

Tinsley, Graham Frederick (born 1931). [1943-1947].

Tomlin, Eric Harral (born 1910). [1924-1927].

Townsend, Paul Leslie Gordon (born 1937). [1951-1956].

Tredre, Wing Commander Alec Ford (born 1934). [1946-1953].

Trencham, John Theodore (born 1924). [1938-1942].

Turner, Cyril Edward Hedgeman (born 1905). [1918-1924].

Turner, Richard Wainwright Duke (1909-1992). [1921-1928].

Ungar, Gerald Henry (born 1930). [1944-1948].

Urquhart, David Ronald Petersgarth (1920-2008). [1932-1938].

Vaile, John Douglas Berkeley (1911-1986). [1921-1930].

Van Someren, Gerald Anthony (1911-1957). [1924-1929].

Visick, James Hedley (born 1937). [1950-1954].

Walk, David Alexander (born 1934). [1947-1952].

Walker, Alan John (1918-1994). [1931-1935].

Walker, William Clark (1927-2007). [1942-1945].

Wallace, James Gordon (born 1926). [1939-1944].

Wallis, Surgeon Captain Geoffrey Garfitt (1918-1999). [1928-1936].

Ward, John Turner (born 1932). [1946-1950].

Ward, Mark Willis Partington (1922-2000). [1940-1940].

Warwick, Frederick (1934-2009). [1948-1953].

Watson, Hubert John Cheney (born 1921). [1935-1939].

Watson, Philip Charles (born 1918). [1932-1936].

Watts, Martin Bertram (born 1929). [1943-1947].

Webb, Brian Wykeham (born 1921). [1935-1939].

West, George Philip (born 1921). [1935-1939].

West, Michael Henry (born 1919). [1933-1937].

Whitehead, John Peter Stockwell (born 1918). [1932-1936].

Whittingham, Group Captain Harold Warrender (born 1914). [1925-1933].

Williams, John Gareth Marshall (born 1930). [1945-1949].

Williams, Richard Huw Patrick (born 1936). [1949-1954].

Williamson, Martin Sadler (1914-1997). [1927-1932].

Wilmot, Thomas James (1920-2010). [1934-1938].

Winter, Peter John (born 1933). [1946-1952].

Wisdom, Anthony Rodwell (born 1930). [1945-1948].

Witherow, Peter James (born 1935). [1948-1953].

Wright, David Stephen (1935-2010). [1949-1953].

Wright, Derek George Douglas (born 1939). [1951-1954].

Wright, Nicholas John Lane (born 1931). [1944-1949].

Wynne, Edward John Carleton (born 1926). [1940-1944].

Wynne, John Richard Ward (1924-2006). [1936-1940].

Young, John Murray (born 1931). [1944-1950].

MAJOR-GENERAL CHARLES WILLIAM GREENWAY (1900-1968). C.B., C.B.E., A.M.S., Q.H.S., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.).

Charles William Greenway (1900-1968) [Epsom College 1911-1918. Rugby XV. MacFarlane Cup] was the son of Dr C. M. Greenway, of Plumstead, South London. He received his medical education at Guy’s Hospital. He joined the R.A.M.C. immediately after qualification and was posted to India where he remained until shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War. When the War broke out he went to France with the Expeditionary Force and later took part in the evacuation of Dunkirk. From 1940 until 1942 he was in command of 153 Field Ambulance and was later appointed officer commanding the Military Hospital at Moretonhampstead in Devon. In 1944 he returned to India, at first as officer commanding the 16 Convalescent Depot, then as officer commanding the British Military Hospital in Bangalore. In 1947 he returned to Britain and was appointed officer in command of the Military Hospital at Colchester, before appointment as Assistant Director of Medical Services, Northumbrian District. In 1950 he was appointed Assistant Director of Medical Services in Singapore and, in 1948, as Director of Medical Services with the Far East Land Forces. He returned to England in 1953 with the rank of Major General and became Deputy Director of Medical Services, Northern Command, which post he occupied until his retirement in 1957. He was an Honorary Surgeon to H.M. the Queen (1953-1957).

SHEDDEN CHALMERS St GEORGE COLE PARRY (1900-1992). M.A. (Cantab.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), D.P.H. (Eng.).

Shedden Chalmers St George Cole Parry (1900-1992) [Epsom College 1914-1918] was the son of Dr T. W. Parry, of Crouch End, North London. He received his medical education at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and the Middlesex Hospital. He held a number of appointments including Assistant Medical Officer for the Port of Southampton; Deputy County Medical Officer for Worcestershire, Assistant County Medical Officer for Hampshire, and Medical Officer of Health for the Petersfield and Droxford Districts. During the Second World War he served in the R.A.M.C. in Europe (1942-1946). Before the war, and while serving as a ship’s surgeon with the P and O Steamship Line, Parry conceived the idea of the digital method of conversing, making diagnosis possible between a doctor and patient with no common language. His book, Polyglot Medical Questionnaire, ran to two editions and was translated into 27 languages. It has been extensively used throughout the world by ship’s masters and port and airport medical authorities. The 193 basic questions were designed to elicit the answer “yes,” “no,” “I do not know,” or a number, and from these answers an accurate medical history and diagnosis could be built up.

JAMES PICKFORD MARSDEN (1900-1977). M.A., M.D., B.Ch. (Cantab.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), D.P.H. (Eng.).

James Pickford Marsden (1900-1977) [Epsom College 1914-1918. prefect. Rugby XV. Cricket XI] was the son of Dr J. A. Marsden, of Lightcliffe, Yorkshire. He received his medical education at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and St Thomas’s Hospital. He was appointed Physician Superintendent of Joyce Green and Long Reach Hospitals, Dartford, and was formerly Consultant Physician to the London County Council, the Regional Hospital Boards and the Ministry of Health. He made a special study of infectious diseases and smallpox in particular, as a result of which he became an authority recognised throughout the world. He was Chairman of the Dartford Branch of the British Medical Association, and President of the Kent Branch.

KENNETH VICTOR FRANCIS (born 1900). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.).

Kenneth Victor Francis (born 1900) [Epsom College 1914-1918. prefect] was the son of Dr L. A. Francis, of Uxbridge, Middlesex. He received his medical education at St Mary’s Hospital. He served as a Surgeon Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, but later emigrated to the United States where he was appointed Consultant Psychiatrist and Professor of Mental Hygiene at the University of Iowa, USA. He was previously Assistant Professor of Neuro-Psychiatry at Stanford University Medical School, San Francisco, California, and before that Assistant Medical Officer at the London County Council Mental Hospital, Colney Hatch, Middlesex. He was a member of the American Psychiatric and Medical Associations, and a member of the American Sociological Society. During the Second World War he served as a Captain in the United States Army Medical Corps (1942-1945).

PHILIP GARSON (born 1900). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), F.R.C.S. (Edin.), D.L.O.

Philip Garson (born 1900) [Epsom College 1914-1919. prefect] was the son of Dr W. R. J. Garson, of Bebington, Merseyside, and brother of Alexander Denis Garson, C.M.G. [Epsom College 1918-1921]. He received his medical education at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, and was appointed Consultant Ear, Nose and Throat Surgeon at the Liverpool Eye and Ear Infirmary, and Honorary Medical Officer in Charge of the Ear, Nose and Throat Department of the David Lewis Northern Hospital, Liverpool. He was previously Honorary Assistant Surgeon at the Royal Liverpool Children’s Hospital.

GEOFFREY LEWIS PESKETT (1900-1971). M.A., B.M., B.Ch. (Oxon).

Geoffrey Lewis Peskett (1900-1971) [Epsom College 1913-1918. Watts Science Prize] was the son of Dr A. W. C. Peskett, of Brighton, and father of William Geoffrey Hogan Peskett [Epsom College 1953-1956]. He received his medical education at New College, University of Oxford, and the London Hospital. He was appointed Demonstrator in Biochemistry and Examiner for the Final Honours Schools at the University of Oxford, and was then awarded a Rockefeller Medical Fellowship at Columbia University, USA. On returning to Britain he was appointed Deputy Medical Officer at St Mary’s Hospital, Parkhurst, the Isle of Wight. He was later awarded a Medical Fellowship by the Medical Research Council and appointed Head of the Physiology Department at the National Institute for Research in Dairying, and Lecturer in Physiology at the University of Reading. He was the author of the Laboratory Handbook of Biochemistry.

HUBERT ARTHUR PIM (born 1900). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.).

Hubert Arthur Pim (born 1900) [Epsom College 1913-1918] was the son of Dr J. H. Pim, of Sleaford, Lincolnshire, and brother of Henry Ernest Pim [Epsom College 1918-1925]. He received his medical education at St Thomas’s Hospital, and served as a Clinical Assistant in the Orthopaedic Department. He was then appointed Coroner for Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, and Medical Officer for the Alexandra and Kennylands School, Reading. He was also a Member of the Medical Interviewing Committee of the Ministry of Health.

HAROLD BURT-WHITE (1901-1952). M.D., B.S. (Lond.), L.R.C.P. (Eng.), F.R.C.S. (Lond.), F.R.C.O.G.

Harold Burt-White (1901-1952) [Epsom College 1916-1918] was the son of R. J. Burt-White, a cotton goods buyer, of Crouch End, North London. He received his medical education at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, where he won the Bentley Prize and Lawrence Research Scholarship (1926-1927). He then won the University Gold Medal in the M.D. Examination, the Bishop Harman Prize of the British Medical Association, and the Nichols Prize of the Royal Society of Medicine. He was a Founder Member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. He was appointed Consultant Gynaecologist at Salisbury General Infirmary and the National Temperance Hospital. He was previously Gynaecological Surgeon at the City of London Maternity Hospital, Whipps Cross Hospital, and the Soho Hospital for Women. During the Second World War he served in the R.A.M.C., and from 1942 to 1944 was Gynaecological Specialist to the Women’s Services in Northern Ireland.

KEMPTON PETER HARE (1901-1977). M.D., B.S. (Lond.), L.M.S.S.A., D.T.M. & H.

Kenneth Peter Hare (1901-1977) [Epsom College 1913-1919. prefect. Hugh Vardon, English Literature and Watts Science Prizes] was the son of Dr Frederick Hare, of Waterhouses, Co. Durham. He received his medical education at University College Hospital, and went into general practice at Newark and then Lincoln. In 1936 he went to Assam as a medical officer to various tea estates, but when India was threatened with invasion in 1942, he became a civilian medical officer in charge of coolies building the Burma Road. After Second World War he returned to London and won the gold medal in the M.D. Examination of London University. He was then appointed Senior Medical Officer for the British Overseas Airways Corporation. He was a member of the University of London Rowing VIII.

CHARLES JOSEPH SANDERSON (born 1901). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), D.P.H. (Lond.).

Charles Joseph Sanderson (born 1901) [Epsom College 1916-1919. prefect. MacFarlane Cup] was the son of Joseph Sanderson, master grocer, of Alnwick, Northumberland. He received his medical education at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, and was appointed Medical Officer of Health for Bournemouth. During the Second World War he served as a Major (Hygiene Specialist) in the R.A.M.C. (1939-1945).

JOHN WRIGHT NANKIVELL (born 1901). M.B., B.S. (Lond.), L.R.C.P. (Eng.), F.R.C.S. (Edin.).

John Wright Nankivell (born 1901) [Epsom College 1915-1919. prefect. Rugby XV] was the son of B. W. Nankivell, F.R.C.S., of Bournemouth, and brother of Dr Percy Howard Nankivell [Epsom College 1920-1926]. He received his medical education at the Middlesex Hospital, where he won the Senior Broderip Scholarship. He was appointed Obstetric and Gynaecological Surgeon at the Royal Victoria and West Hampshire Hospitals, Bournemouth. He was a Member of the Bournemouth Medical Society, and late Senior Resident Medical Officer at the City of London Maternity Hospital and Chelsea Hospital for Women.

GORDON KIRWAN-TAYLOR (1901-1975). O.B.E., M.A., M.D., B.Ch. (Cantab.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.).

Gordon Kirwan-Taylor (1901-1975) [Epsom College 1915-1920. head prefect. Captain of Rugby XV. Captain of Cricket XI. Sterry and Brande Prizes] was the son of A. G. Taylor, company director, of Sutton, Surrey, and brother of Sir Alfred Jesse Taylor, Lord Grantchester [Epsom College 1907-1912], Harold George Taylor, F.R.C.S. [Epsom College 1909-1913], Ernest Edward Taylor [Epsom College 1910-1912], William John Taylor, O.B.E. [Epsom College 1919-1923], Sir Charles Stuart Taylor, M.P. [Epsom College 1924-1929]. He received his medical education at Trinity College, Cambridge, and St George’s Hospital. After appointment as Resident Medical Officer at the General Lying-in Hospital, Lambeth, and Resident Obstetric Assistant at St Georges Hospital, he was appointed Consultant Obstetrician at St George’s hospital. During the Second World War he served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the R.A.M.C. (1939-1945). He was a member of both the Cambridge University Cricket XI and Rugby XV.

BASIL ROY SWORN (1901-1968). M.B., B.S. (Lond.), L.R.C.P. (Eng.), F.R.C.S. (Lond.).

Basil Roy Sworn (1901-1968) [Epsom College 1915-1919] was the son of Dr E. A. Sworn, of Hanley, Staffordshire. He received his medical education at St Thomas’s Hospital, and was appointed Consultant Surgeon at the Staffordshire General Infirmary (1933-1964). Before this he was Demonstrator in Anatomy and Surgical Tutor at St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School. He was the first surgeon in the Midlands to undertake the surgical treatment of intervertebral disc protrusion and he dealt with many hundreds of cases from 1937 onwards, and he was the first surgeon in the Midlands to remove an islet-cell adenoma of the pancreas for hyperinsulinism. In the years immediately after the second world war, before thoracic surgery units were widely established, he undertook thoracic surgery for carcinoma of the oesophagus and lung. “Sworn’s surgical talents were such that if he had remained on the staff of a teaching hospital he would have gained an international reputation.”

COLONEL ERIC FRANCIS SAUNDERSON MORRISON (born 1902). M.C., M.A., M.B., B.Ch. (Dublin), B.A.O., J.P.

Eric Francis Saunderson Morrison (born 1902) [Epsom College 1916-1920] was the son of Dr F. S. Morrison, J.P., of Hallaton, Leicestershire. He received his medical education at University College, London and Trinity College, Dublin. He was appointed Medical Officer for Leicester County Council. Before this appointment he was Resident Medical Officer at Sir Patrick Dun’s Hospital and the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin. He was a member of the Dublin Biological Society. During the Second World War he served as a Colonel in the R.A.M.C. (M.E.F. and C.M.F.), was awarded the Africa Star (8^th Army) and mentioned in dispatches four times.

JOHN FRANCIS LOVEL BARNES (born 1902). M.A. (Cantab.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), M.R.C.Psych.

John Francis Lovel Barnes (born 1902) [Epsom College 1916-1920. Rugby XV. English Literature Prize] was the son of Dr J. A. Barnes, of Leicester. He received his medical education at Trinity College, Cambridge and St Thomas’s Hospital. He was appointed Consultant Psychiatrist at King George’s Hospital, Ilford; Consultant Psychotherapist at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, and Lecturer and Examiner in Psychological Medicine at the West End Hospital for Neurology. He was also Consultant Psychiatrist at the Foundling Hospital, London, and Assistant Physician at the Tavistock Clinic, London. He was a member of the Medical Psychological Association and of the British Psychological Society.

PHILIP GRAEME BENTLIF (born 1902). M.A., M.D., B.Ch. (Cantab.), M.R.C.S. (Eng.), M.R.C.P. (Lond.).

Philip Graeme Bentlif (born 1902) [Epsom College 1916-1918] was the son of Dr P. B. Bentlif, of Jersey. He received his medical education at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he won the University Scholarship, and the Middlesex Hospital. He was appointed Honorary Consultant Physician and Dermatologist at the General Hospital, Jersey, and Medical Officer to H.M. Prison, Jersey. He was a member of the Jersey Medical Society.

SURGEON CAPTAIN CHARLES BOYD NICHOLSON (1902-1987). R.N., C.B., C.B.E., Q.H.P., M.B., B.S. (Lond.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), D.L.O.

Charles Boyd Nicholson (1902-1987) [Epsom College 1913-1920. prefect. Rugby XV] was the son of Dr C. H. Nicholson, of Mill Hill, London, and father of Michael John Boyd Nicholson [Epsom College 1951-1954], and Robert Charles Nicholson [Epsom College 1952-1956]. He received his medical education at the Middlesex Hospital, joining the Royal Navy after qualifying, and starting his career at the naval hospitals of Portsmouth and Chatham. He served at sea on H.M.S. Warspite. From 1937 until 1940 he worked in the Naval Hospital at Hong Kong and then in the Orkneys until 1942, when he was made Surgeon Captain and appointed Fleet Medical Officer, Mediterranean. At that time he was the youngest Surgeon Captain in the Royal Navy. He was initially based in Algiers, where he showed outstanding administrative ability in organising medical services throughout the Mediterranean, but in 1949 he returned to sea, serving on H.M.S.s Vanguard and Indomitable, and then as Fleet Medical Officer for the Home Fleet, from 1950 until 1952. When he finally retired from the Royal Navy in 1958 he was posted to the Admiralty, where he was Assistant Medical Director General of the Royal Navy. He was an Honorary Surgeon to H.M. the Queen, a liveryman of the Society of Apothecaries, and a Freeman of the City of London. He was President of the Sussex Branch of the British Medical Association (1968), and in his student days a member of the United Hospitals Rugby XV.

CHARLES ROY SALKELD (1902-1989). B.A., M.B., B.Ch. (Oxon.), F.R.C.S. (Edin.).

Charles Roy Salkeld (1902-1989) [Epsom College 1916-1920] was the son of Dr Charles Salkeld, of Potter Newton, Leeds. He received his medical education at Merton College, University of Oxford, and St Thomas’s Hospital, and was appointed Consultant Ear, Nose and Throat Surgeon, for the Wessex Regional Hospital Board. He undertook important medical research into allergic diseases in Strasbourg, Paris, Bordeaux and the United States. During the Second World War he served as a Major with the R.A.M.C. (1939-1945).