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OBITUARY Sir TUDOR THOMAS DSC, MD, MS, FRCS
Sir Tudor Thomas, honorary ophthalmic surgeon to the United Cardiff Hospitals and the Welsh Regional Hospital Board, died on 23 January. He was 82. James William Tudor Thomas was born at Ystradgynlais, Breconshire, on 23 May 1893 and studied at the Cardiff School of Medicine and the -1 a~ ~ Middlesex Hospital. At Cardiff ,~~. ~ he won the Alfred ,~Sheen prize in anatomy and physiology in 1911 jP
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graduated BSc. He qualified with the Conjoint diploma
in 1915 and the followingyeartook the MB, BCh of the University of Wales and the London degree of MB, BS. After house appointments at Swansea he entered the RAMC for service in the first world war. On returning to civilian life he was for a time clinical assistant at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital (Moorfields) and the Central London Ophthalmic Hospital. He was then appointed ophthalmic surgeon to the King Edward VII National Memorial Association at Cardiff and to the Mountain Ash and Maesteg hospitals. In 1921 he became ophthalmic surgeon at Cardiff Royal Infirmary. He took the FRCS in 1925 and proceeded MD and MS in 1929. In 1931 he was elected Hunterian professor of the Royal College of Surgeons and was clinical teacher in ophthalmology in the Welsh National School of Medicine. After the inception of the NHS he became ophthalmic adviser to and chairman of the ophthalmic committee of the Welsh Regional Hospital Board. He was a member of the board of governors of the United Cardiff Hospitals, and in 1948 chairman of the Welsh region of the Consultants and Specialists Committee. Tudor Thomas made original and lasting contributions, both experimental and clinical, to the technique of corneal grafting. Before the second world war he conceived the idea of a registration bureau for the collection and use of donor material at the Central London Ophthalmic Hospital, where he was associate surgeon in charge of the corneoplastic department from 1935 to 1940. An eye bank was formed at East Grinstead, and in 1952 the
elected to the Council in 1949, retaining his seat until 1957. He was an honorary secretary of the section of ophthalmology when the BMA held its Annual Meeting at Cardiff in 1928 and later was vice-president and president. On many occasions from 1939 he was a representative at Annual Meetings of the Association and he also served on a number of its central committees, including the Ophthalmic Committee, the Ophthalmic Group Committee, and the Central Ethical Committee. A member of the Welsh Committee for many years, he became its chairman in 1958, and had also been chairman of the Cardiff Division and of the South Wales and Monmouthshire Branch. In 1954 he was invited by the Council of the BMA to tour its branches and divisions in the Middle and Far East. Soon after his return from this arduous journey the BMA elected him a Vice-President in recognition of his services to the Association and Glasgow University conferred on him the honorary degree of LLD in recognition of his pioneer work as an ophthalmologist. Sir Tudor was knighted in 1956. In 1960 the gold medal of the Society of Apothecaries was bestowed on him in recognition of his outstanding services in corneoplastic surgery. He wrote many articles on ophthalmology, with particular reference to corneal grafting. In 1938 he married Bronwen Vaughan Pugh, who survives him with their two sons.
was not without incident in the years of troubles, with curfews and maternity calls being carried out in armed transport. Having been the first woman anatomy demonstrator, she qualified in 1922 and went with her mother
to join her brothers in England, taking up school work in the East End, where over the next 50 years she became a familiar figure to generations of schoolchildren and their parents. Her chosen path was interrupted in 1939, when she joined the EMS and found herself in hospital medicine at New Cross Hospital and welcomed as an anaesthetist at Chatham, to her alarm, but settling to learn her task competently till moved to Joyce Green Hospital. In 1945 she returned to the East End, particularly to Limehouse, Wapping, and the Isle of Dogs. Her reputation grew among teachers as the person to turn to for problem solving. County Hall relied on her for her conscientious grading of educationally subnormal children. Dr Cotter worked on, reducing her duties by degrees and finally retiring in 1971 at the age of 77. She had travelled widely in the 1930s and maintained an up-to-date knowledge of the theatre, the cinema, and literature. Her religion was an integral part of her life, while her interest in her brothers, their children, and their children's children, including three doctors and three medical students so far among the 22 offspring, kept her youthful in
mind.-EHJC. SW writes: For a number of years Tudor Thomas and I were closely associated in BMA activities. Like so many who have been pioneers and leaders in our profession, he was a modest man. On the many occasions on which I went to South Wales I was always impressed with the respect and affection he inspired among his colleagues. He was kindly, thoughtful for others, and full of fun. I never heard him raise his voice nor speak ill of anyone. He was a distinguished and conscientious President, and all who heard it will remember his Presidential Address "With Head, and Heart, and Hand," those memorable words of Charles Hastings which were eventually incorporated in the coat of arms of the Association. I am grateful for the friendship he showed me over the years and I would like to pay particular tribute to the help given to him by his lovely and devoted wife Bronnie. To her and to her family goes all our sympathy.
NORA COTTER BA, MB, BCH, BAO
Corneal Grafting Act was placed on the Dr Nora Cotter, formerly school medical Statute Book. officer in Tower Hamlets, London, died on
When it was decided that the 1953 Annual 26 December. She was 81. Nora Cotter was born at Blarney, County the local division was unanimous that Tudor Cork, on 5 March 1894 and read English for Thomas should be President of the Association the BA at University College, Cork. After for 1953-4 and its choice was wholeheartedly teaching in the county for a year she decided confirmed by both Council and the Representa- her vocation was to be school medical work tive Body. Tudor Thomas had been a member and returned to UCC to follow her two brothers of the Association since 1922 and was first through the medical faculty. Her studentship
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W R HENDERSON OBE, MB, CHB, FRCS
Mr W R Henderson, honorary consultant neurosurgeon to the General Infirmary at Leeds, died on 30 November. He was 71. William Robert Henderson was born on 3 February 1904 and graduated in medicine at Edinburgh in 1926. He was appointed OBE in 1945 for his distinguished services while a prisoner of war. AEW writes: In 1938 Mr Henderson was appointed first specialist neurosurgeon at Leeds but was there for only about a year, when he was selected as neurosurgeon-in-charge of the No 1 Army mobile neurosurgical unit based at Oxford. The unit worked, largely in general surgery, during the retreat to Dunkirk and was captured intact. Willie's special qualities of determination, calm, surgical skill, and patience were of particular value at such a time and he became famous as one of the surgical team at the POW Hospital at Obermassfeld. During this period he gained a vast experience of peripheral nerve injuries and the subtle effects of amputation, and, as would be expected, many of the carefully collected data later appeared in print. He was transferred to Colditz and ended the war in a more passive role. In 1946, after a few months attached to the military hospital for head injuries at Oxford, he returned to Leeds and gradually expanded the neurosurgical service
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in the region. He retired in 1969, leaving an active and flourishing unit. During these 23 years he dispensed clinical common sense and superb operating skills which were delights to witness and for which many generations of trainees will for ever be grateful. As befitting a pupil of Harvey Cushing, he had an abundance of patience at the bedside and in the theatre, and he was intolerant of slipshod clinical examination and of anything but the most scrupulous operating. He was greatly respected both locally and nationally, and was for many years secretary and later president of the Society of British Neurological Surgeons. At all clinical meetings he showed his gift for separating wheat from chaff and fact from fancy, but there was never malice in his comments and the erring novice always benefited. He eschewed personal publicity, preferring the satisfaction of a job well done to public acclaim. Committee work he disliked, medical politics he avoided, and humbug and dishonesty he would have none of. He will be remembered for his written works on pituitary tumours, basal meningiomas, phantom limbs, trigeminal neuralgia, and angiomas. He will be remembered also as a man of immense integrity and loyalty towards his craft, towards his patients, and towards his colleagues.
his mark. His clinics were well organised, tuberculous contacts were always followed up, his beds at Bourne Isolation Hospital were correctly used, and his advice was sought on all chest problems. While always extremely courteous, he was outspoken to his colleagues and to his patients when he considered it necessary, but beneath this occasionally forbidding exterior was a very kind heart and one always knew that if Bernard Royce said he would do anything it would be done. His patients thought the world of him and were very disappointed if he could not see them. He commanded a great loyalty from all who came into daily contact with him. He entered fully into the life of the village in which he lived, being especially active in the Royal British Legion. Some years ago he had a heart valve replaced and was as ill as one could be without succumbing. Yet he made some recovery and typically refused to retire on medical grounds. He did retire at 60 years of age, and during the last year and a half managed a great deal with obvious enjoyment. He is survived by his wife Bessie, who looked after him so patiently when he was ill, and by three daughters, whom he inspired to become doctor, nurse, and physiotherapist respectively.-REL.
I McINDEWAR
BSC, MD, FFARCS, DA
W M SHEARER MB, CHB
Dr I Mclndewar, who was in general practice at Salsburgh, Lanarkshire, died on 3 January. He was 61. Ian Mclndewar was born at Dumbarton on 3 December 1914 and educated at Dumbarton Academy and Glasgow University, where he graduated in medicine in 1938. After an assistantship in general practice at Airdrie he did four years of war service in hospitals at Southampton and Dover, where he also had care of prisoners of war in the area. In appreciation of his services he and his wife were guests at many of the concerts held in the camp, and on the birth of their elder son they received toys that had been made by the prisoners. In 1948 he went into practice at Salsburgh and for more than a quarter of a century had little time for relaxation from the strain of singlehanded practice in the busy industrial belt of Lanarkshire. He carried on bravely, to die in harness. His death is a great loss to his wife and two sons and their families, and also to his colleagues, friends, and patients.-SHPM.
G B ROYCE BSC, MB, BS Dr G B Royce, consultant chest physician to the Peterborough district, died on 3 January.
He was 61.
George Bernard Royce was educated at Worksop College and Leeds University, where he graduated in medicine in 1939. He was in the Army for six years, serving in the Middle East. On returning to Britain he became a registrar in the thoracic surgical unit at Leeds and then deputy medical superintendent at Scotton Banks Sanatorium, Knaresborough. He was appointed consultant chest physician at Peterborough in 1949. Singlehanded for many years, he quickly made
Dr W M Shearer, formerly administrative anaesthetist at the Dundee teaching hospitals and head of the department of anaesthetics, Dundee University, died suddenly on 15 January. He was 68. William Macdonald Shearer, the son of a Baptist minister, was born at Galashiels on 26 February 1907. He first trained as a pharmacist, acquiring the MPS in 1928. Four years later he started medicine, graduating BSc in 1935 and MB, ChB at St Andrews University in 1938. The following year saw his introduction to anaesthetics when he took a post at Swansea General Hospital. During the second world war he served in the RAMC in West Africa and India, becoming a specialist anaesthetist. On leaving the Army he worked in Law Hospital, and in 1946 was appointed lecturer in anaesthetics to St Andrews University and anaesthetist in charge of the department of anaesthetics at Dundee Royal Infirmary, a post funded jointly by the university and the hospital. He assumed a whole-time consultant post in 1947 on the inception of the NHS and proceeded MD in 1948. He saw the department grow from one resident anaesthetist and himself, together with a few general-practitioner anaesthetists, to a total of 24 on his retirement in 1972. Always a staunch supporter of the Scottish Society of Anaesthetists, he was elected its president in 1953. He was an excellent clinical anaesthetist, and this was his main interest. He had little time for committees and did not consider that he was really fulfilling his duties unless he was working in the operating theatre, where, until the day of his retirement, he put in a prodigious number of sessions, often working into the small hours. He had a wonderful sense of humour and an ability to remain cheerful under the most trying circumstances. Dr Shearer built up a happy department in which his adherence to the traditional values of medicine was an example to all who worked with him. His death is a great loss to his wife,
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daughters, and son, and his memory will be held in respect, gratitude, and affection by all who knew him.-JIML.
J DALZIEL MRCS, LRCP Dr J Dalziel, who was in general practice at Enfield, Middlesex, died on 12 December. He was 70. John Dalziel was born at Derby on 23 April 1905. His first love was the sea and his early education was in HMS Conway, then moored in the Mersey at Rock Ferry. In 1920 he joined the Union Castle line and obtained his master's certificate. In 1932 he came ashore and St Bartholomew's Hospital was farseeing enough to accept this master mariner as a mature student. He qualified in 1937 and did resident appointments at Croydon General Hospital. Just before the outbreak of the second world war he joined a practice at Enfield which had already a long-established tradition of service to the church, the community, and medicine. He lived up to this tradition and soon became churchwarden of Jesus Church and trustee of the Enfield parochial charities. He was a member of the staff of Enfield War Memorial Hospital and chairman of the medical staff committee. He was on the hospital management committee after the inception of the NHS and was a keen founder member of the Enfield and Potters Bar Division of the BMA, becoming its chairman. With all this he found time to devote to the sea, latterly having a well-loved yacht aptly named Providence. John was a man who was always courteous and helpful. His main characteristic was steadfastness, whether in his dealings with patients, weekend yachtsmen discussing a projected passage, would-be atheistical colleagues, or schemers of medicopolitical action. His memory will be held in respect by his many colleagues and friends. Dr Dalziel is survived by his wife, son, and three daughters. -HRS.
A McALLISTER LRCP&SED, LRFPSGLAS Dr A McAllister, who was in general practice at Thornton Heath, Surrey, for 27 years, died on 20 November. He was 59. Archibald McAllister was born on 21 November 1915 into an Edinburgh family that produced three doctors. He was educated at Boroughmuir School and qualified at Edinburgh in 1940. After a house appointment at
Ayr County Hospital he joined the Forces and served for four years in the RAMC. He went to India, Assam, and Burma, and was among those cut off in Kohima. In India he met and married his wife, who was a nursing sister QAIMNS/R. Both served in the 14th British General Hospital. After demobilisation he worked at Mayday Hospital, Thornton Heath, and later joined a practice in that town. A lifelong member of the BMA, he served on the executive committee of the Croydon Division. When younger Dr McAllister was a keen rugby player and represented Edinburgh against Glasgow. He played golf from childhood, winning many trophies. For eight years he was secretary of the Scottish Medical
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Golfing Society and last year their captain. He was also captain of Croydon Scottish Golfing Society. He was loved by his family, patients, and friends. A dour Scot whose word was his bond, conscientious in everything he did, he was indeed a doctor in the finest tradition. His Christian witness was borne out by his great courage in his progressive illness, and he will be sadly missed by all. He is survived by his wife and two daughters. -ERS.
M McGILLIVRAY MC, MB, CHB
Dr M McGillivray, who was in general practice at Dundee for over 45 years, died on
21 December. He
was
83.
Malcolm McGillivray was born at Perth of Highland stock on 12 October 1892 and went to Dundee as a boy. He was educated at Harris Academy and St Andrews University, where he graduated in medicine in 1916 He immediately joined the Forces and served with the South Wales Borderers until the end of the first world war, reaching the rank of major and winning the Military Cross on the Somme. After the war, and after house appointments in Dundee Royal Infirmary, he entered general practice in the Hilltown area of Dundee, a kenspeckle figure in an area that had its own special character. He epitomised all that was fine about a general practitioner. Conscientious, hardworking, and deeply concerned about his patients, his kindness and honesty, combined with a dry, typically Scottish humour, endeared him to patients and colleagues alike. He professed no religious belief but exercised at all times the fundamental virtues of toleration and consideration for others. His main relaxations
shooting, walking, and reading. He liked nothing better than to tramp the hills of his beloved north of Scotland. For over 45 years he was rarely without a dog, and we can be sure that each of them was happy to have had were
such a master. Malcolm McGillivray was a bachelor and had been retired for 12 years. His only brother, Donald, who was also in general practice at Dundee, died in 1960. Malcolm's death is a great loss to a wide circle of friends and to the community he served so well.BSR.
K J R CUTHBERT MB, CHB, FRCOG Mr Kenneth Cuthbert, consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist to St Mary's Hospital; King Edward Memorial Hospital, Ealing; and Perivale Maternity Hospital, died on 15 January. He was 55. Kenneth Joseph Robson Cuthbert graduated in medicine from Edinburgh University in 1943. After junior posts in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, Hammersmith Hospital, Edgware General Hospital, and Paddington General Hospital he was appointed consultant at Ealing in 1958 and soon after at Paddington General Hospital, which became part of St Mary's. He took the MRCOG in 1947 and became a fellow in 1963. He examined for the DObstRCOG, and was an examiner for the MRCOG at the time of his death. He was a recognised
teacher in the University of London and a lecturer and examiner for the Central Midwives Board. Mr Cuthbert was a skilful clinician for whom no trouble was too great in meeting his patients' needs, helping general practitioners, and supporting his junior staff. His cheerful courage in surmounting the difficulties of repeated serious illnesses inspired great affection and admiration in his colleagues. Long after lesser men might have adopted a more restful way of life this intrepid Yorkshireman returned again and again to full clinical activity. His hobbies were those appropriate to a surgeon: he was a skilled plumber, carpenter, and mechanic. After dealing with his patients' problems he enjoyed doing a round of his colleagues' ailing motorcars, and here, too, his opinion was respected and his advice heeded. He had a very happy family life with his wife and two daughters. This kindly, unassuming man will be sadly missed by them, and by his friends and colleagues.-AMD.
347 the second world war, but even at that time he held a Territorial commission and he engaged forthwith on his wartime career in the RAMC. During this he rose to the rank of colonel. He commanded the 131 Field Armbulance in the North African desert, where he was decorated with the MBE, presented by General Montgomery. From D-Day he was with the Army in Europe. Although he came to general practice at Ruddington in 1946, he continued to serve with vigour in the Army Emergency Reserve until he retired at the age limit. From his arrival at Ruddington he remained an excellent example of a general practitioner, completely dedicated to the practice, its people, and the village in which he served. A natural leader in any community, he spent his life and health working for us all, and he richly deserves our gratitude. In late years he was not well enough to continue in practice, but he rejoiced in his work on medical boards and tribunals, finally dying as no doubt he wished, at the end of a full day's activity. He leaves his wife Kath, two sons and a daughter, and very many friends.-AHM.
MARY H Y REMFRY MB, BS
Dr Mary Remfry died suddenly in her sleep on 21 December at her home at Hove. She was 81. Mary Hilda Youle Blakeston was born at Rotherhithe, near the Surrey Docks, where her father was a vicar. Later they moved to
the Yorkshire village of Womersley. She graduated from the Royal Free Hospital, London, in 1922 and after a house appointment went to the Children's Hospital in Mandalay, Burma, where she stayed until her marriage three years later to Judge C 0 Remfry. At that time there was no hospital or other treatment available there for the many sufferers from tuberculosis. Dr Remfry became deeply concerned in helping to create the Bengal Tuberculosis Association, a flourishing organisation with which she kept in touch over the years. For this work she received the Kaisar-i-Hind gold medal from King George VI. After her husband's retirement in 1938 until his death in 1961 they lived at Bexhill-on-Sea, where they both became enthusiastic gardeners. For the past 13 years she lived at Hove in Sussex. For 40 years Dr Remfry took an active part in the work of Moral Rearmament, taking special interest in its overseas development and welcoming to her home students and others from many nations. Her faith and purpose, combined with a lively sense of humour and a love for people, won for her the love and gratitude of a multitude of friends around the world.-OKB.
W S HARVEY MBE, ERD, TD, MB, CHB
Dr W S Harvey, for many years in practice at Ruddington, Nottingham, died on 19 December. He was 66. William Simpson Harvey was born at
Tranent. He spent his early years at Edinburgh and was educated at the Royal High School and Edinburgh University, where he graduated in medicine in 1934. After occupying posts at Edinburgh and Dumfries he was already established in practice in Leicester before
G M INGALL MB, CHB, MRCGP
Dr George M Ingall, for many years in general practice at Longtown, Cumbria, died suddenly on 10 January. He was 48. George Matthew Ingall was born at Bonningate, Kendal, on 16 March 1927 and educated at Windermere Grammar School and Manchester University. After graduating he entered the Royal Navy in 1951 and served as surgeon lieutenant until 1955. He then spent six months at St
Mary's Hospital, Manchester, studying midwifery before moving to Carlisle to assist in a group practice for two years. Since 1958 he had been in general practice at Longtown. An untiring worker in many local activities, he will be sadly missed,
especially by the Swimming Pool Committee, the Memorial Hall Committee, and the local church, where he was a member of the parochial council. Dr Ingall was medical officer for the RAF, Carlisle. He was a member of the executive committee of the Cumberland Division of the BMA from 1962 and chairman in 1966-7 and again in 1974-5. Popular with his colleagues, he was currently president of the East Cumbria Division and represented Cumberland from 1973 to 1975 at Annual Representative Meetings. He was treasurer of the North of England Faculty of the Royal College of General Practitioners for almost 10 years. Those who knew George, colleagues and patients alike, knew him as a family doctor in the true sense of the word, for he was devoted to his family and his patients. He will be gratefully remembered by Longtown as their friend and doctor who did so much for them. Doctor Ingall is survived by his wife Kay and by his daughter and two sons.-GR.
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OBITUARY Sir TUDOR THOMAS DSC, MD, MS, FRCS
Sir Tudor Thomas, honorary ophthalmic surgeon to the United Cardiff Hospitals and the Welsh Regional Hospital Board, died on 23 January. He was 82. James William Tudor Thomas was born at Ystradgynlais, Breconshire, on 23 May 1893 and studied at the Cardiff School of Medicine and the -1 a~ ~ Middlesex Hospital. At Cardiff ,~~. ~ he won the Alfred ,~Sheen prize in anatomy and physiology in 1911 jP
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graduated BSc. He qualified with the Conjoint diploma
in 1915 and the followingyeartook the MB, BCh of the University of Wales and the London degree of MB, BS. After house appointments at Swansea he entered the RAMC for service in the first world war. On returning to civilian life he was for a time clinical assistant at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital (Moorfields) and the Central London Ophthalmic Hospital. He was then appointed ophthalmic surgeon to the King Edward VII National Memorial Association at Cardiff and to the Mountain Ash and Maesteg hospitals. In 1921 he became ophthalmic surgeon at Cardiff Royal Infirmary. He took the FRCS in 1925 and proceeded MD and MS in 1929. In 1931 he was elected Hunterian professor of the Royal College of Surgeons and was clinical teacher in ophthalmology in the Welsh National School of Medicine. After the inception of the NHS he became ophthalmic adviser to and chairman of the ophthalmic committee of the Welsh Regional Hospital Board. He was a member of the board of governors of the United Cardiff Hospitals, and in 1948 chairman of the Welsh region of the Consultants and Specialists Committee. Tudor Thomas made original and lasting contributions, both experimental and clinical, to the technique of corneal grafting. Before the second world war he conceived the idea of a registration bureau for the collection and use of donor material at the Central London Ophthalmic Hospital, where he was associate surgeon in charge of the corneoplastic department from 1935 to 1940. An eye bank was formed at East Grinstead, and in 1952 the
elected to the Council in 1949, retaining his seat until 1957. He was an honorary secretary of the section of ophthalmology when the BMA held its Annual Meeting at Cardiff in 1928 and later was vice-president and president. On many occasions from 1939 he was a representative at Annual Meetings of the Association and he also served on a number of its central committees, including the Ophthalmic Committee, the Ophthalmic Group Committee, and the Central Ethical Committee. A member of the Welsh Committee for many years, he became its chairman in 1958, and had also been chairman of the Cardiff Division and of the South Wales and Monmouthshire Branch. In 1954 he was invited by the Council of the BMA to tour its branches and divisions in the Middle and Far East. Soon after his return from this arduous journey the BMA elected him a Vice-President in recognition of his services to the Association and Glasgow University conferred on him the honorary degree of LLD in recognition of his pioneer work as an ophthalmologist. Sir Tudor was knighted in 1956. In 1960 the gold medal of the Society of Apothecaries was bestowed on him in recognition of his outstanding services in corneoplastic surgery. He wrote many articles on ophthalmology, with particular reference to corneal grafting. In 1938 he married Bronwen Vaughan Pugh, who survives him with their two sons.
was not without incident in the years of troubles, with curfews and maternity calls being carried out in armed transport. Having been the first woman anatomy demonstrator, she qualified in 1922 and went with her mother
to join her brothers in England, taking up school work in the East End, where over the next 50 years she became a familiar figure to generations of schoolchildren and their parents. Her chosen path was interrupted in 1939, when she joined the EMS and found herself in hospital medicine at New Cross Hospital and welcomed as an anaesthetist at Chatham, to her alarm, but settling to learn her task competently till moved to Joyce Green Hospital. In 1945 she returned to the East End, particularly to Limehouse, Wapping, and the Isle of Dogs. Her reputation grew among teachers as the person to turn to for problem solving. County Hall relied on her for her conscientious grading of educationally subnormal children. Dr Cotter worked on, reducing her duties by degrees and finally retiring in 1971 at the age of 77. She had travelled widely in the 1930s and maintained an up-to-date knowledge of the theatre, the cinema, and literature. Her religion was an integral part of her life, while her interest in her brothers, their children, and their children's children, including three doctors and three medical students so far among the 22 offspring, kept her youthful in
mind.-EHJC. SW writes: For a number of years Tudor Thomas and I were closely associated in BMA activities. Like so many who have been pioneers and leaders in our profession, he was a modest man. On the many occasions on which I went to South Wales I was always impressed with the respect and affection he inspired among his colleagues. He was kindly, thoughtful for others, and full of fun. I never heard him raise his voice nor speak ill of anyone. He was a distinguished and conscientious President, and all who heard it will remember his Presidential Address "With Head, and Heart, and Hand," those memorable words of Charles Hastings which were eventually incorporated in the coat of arms of the Association. I am grateful for the friendship he showed me over the years and I would like to pay particular tribute to the help given to him by his lovely and devoted wife Bronnie. To her and to her family goes all our sympathy.
NORA COTTER BA, MB, BCH, BAO
Corneal Grafting Act was placed on the Dr Nora Cotter, formerly school medical Statute Book. officer in Tower Hamlets, London, died on
When it was decided that the 1953 Annual 26 December. She was 81. Nora Cotter was born at Blarney, County the local division was unanimous that Tudor Cork, on 5 March 1894 and read English for Thomas should be President of the Association the BA at University College, Cork. After for 1953-4 and its choice was wholeheartedly teaching in the county for a year she decided confirmed by both Council and the Representa- her vocation was to be school medical work tive Body. Tudor Thomas had been a member and returned to UCC to follow her two brothers of the Association since 1922 and was first through the medical faculty. Her studentship
Meeting of the BMA would be held at Cardiff
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W R HENDERSON OBE, MB, CHB, FRCS
Mr W R Henderson, honorary consultant neurosurgeon to the General Infirmary at Leeds, died on 30 November. He was 71. William Robert Henderson was born on 3 February 1904 and graduated in medicine at Edinburgh in 1926. He was appointed OBE in 1945 for his distinguished services while a prisoner of war. AEW writes: In 1938 Mr Henderson was appointed first specialist neurosurgeon at Leeds but was there for only about a year, when he was selected as neurosurgeon-in-charge of the No 1 Army mobile neurosurgical unit based at Oxford. The unit worked, largely in general surgery, during the retreat to Dunkirk and was captured intact. Willie's special qualities of determination, calm, surgical skill, and patience were of particular value at such a time and he became famous as one of the surgical team at the POW Hospital at Obermassfeld. During this period he gained a vast experience of peripheral nerve injuries and the subtle effects of amputation, and, as would be expected, many of the carefully collected data later appeared in print. He was transferred to Colditz and ended the war in a more passive role. In 1946, after a few months attached to the military hospital for head injuries at Oxford, he returned to Leeds and gradually expanded the neurosurgical service
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in the region. He retired in 1969, leaving an active and flourishing unit. During these 23 years he dispensed clinical common sense and superb operating skills which were delights to witness and for which many generations of trainees will for ever be grateful. As befitting a pupil of Harvey Cushing, he had an abundance of patience at the bedside and in the theatre, and he was intolerant of slipshod clinical examination and of anything but the most scrupulous operating. He was greatly respected both locally and nationally, and was for many years secretary and later president of the Society of British Neurological Surgeons. At all clinical meetings he showed his gift for separating wheat from chaff and fact from fancy, but there was never malice in his comments and the erring novice always benefited. He eschewed personal publicity, preferring the satisfaction of a job well done to public acclaim. Committee work he disliked, medical politics he avoided, and humbug and dishonesty he would have none of. He will be remembered for his written works on pituitary tumours, basal meningiomas, phantom limbs, trigeminal neuralgia, and angiomas. He will be remembered also as a man of immense integrity and loyalty towards his craft, towards his patients, and towards his colleagues.
his mark. His clinics were well organised, tuberculous contacts were always followed up, his beds at Bourne Isolation Hospital were correctly used, and his advice was sought on all chest problems. While always extremely courteous, he was outspoken to his colleagues and to his patients when he considered it necessary, but beneath this occasionally forbidding exterior was a very kind heart and one always knew that if Bernard Royce said he would do anything it would be done. His patients thought the world of him and were very disappointed if he could not see them. He commanded a great loyalty from all who came into daily contact with him. He entered fully into the life of the village in which he lived, being especially active in the Royal British Legion. Some years ago he had a heart valve replaced and was as ill as one could be without succumbing. Yet he made some recovery and typically refused to retire on medical grounds. He did retire at 60 years of age, and during the last year and a half managed a great deal with obvious enjoyment. He is survived by his wife Bessie, who looked after him so patiently when he was ill, and by three daughters, whom he inspired to become doctor, nurse, and physiotherapist respectively.-REL.
I McINDEWAR
BSC, MD, FFARCS, DA
W M SHEARER MB, CHB
Dr I Mclndewar, who was in general practice at Salsburgh, Lanarkshire, died on 3 January. He was 61. Ian Mclndewar was born at Dumbarton on 3 December 1914 and educated at Dumbarton Academy and Glasgow University, where he graduated in medicine in 1938. After an assistantship in general practice at Airdrie he did four years of war service in hospitals at Southampton and Dover, where he also had care of prisoners of war in the area. In appreciation of his services he and his wife were guests at many of the concerts held in the camp, and on the birth of their elder son they received toys that had been made by the prisoners. In 1948 he went into practice at Salsburgh and for more than a quarter of a century had little time for relaxation from the strain of singlehanded practice in the busy industrial belt of Lanarkshire. He carried on bravely, to die in harness. His death is a great loss to his wife and two sons and their families, and also to his colleagues, friends, and patients.-SHPM.
G B ROYCE BSC, MB, BS Dr G B Royce, consultant chest physician to the Peterborough district, died on 3 January.
He was 61.
George Bernard Royce was educated at Worksop College and Leeds University, where he graduated in medicine in 1939. He was in the Army for six years, serving in the Middle East. On returning to Britain he became a registrar in the thoracic surgical unit at Leeds and then deputy medical superintendent at Scotton Banks Sanatorium, Knaresborough. He was appointed consultant chest physician at Peterborough in 1949. Singlehanded for many years, he quickly made
Dr W M Shearer, formerly administrative anaesthetist at the Dundee teaching hospitals and head of the department of anaesthetics, Dundee University, died suddenly on 15 January. He was 68. William Macdonald Shearer, the son of a Baptist minister, was born at Galashiels on 26 February 1907. He first trained as a pharmacist, acquiring the MPS in 1928. Four years later he started medicine, graduating BSc in 1935 and MB, ChB at St Andrews University in 1938. The following year saw his introduction to anaesthetics when he took a post at Swansea General Hospital. During the second world war he served in the RAMC in West Africa and India, becoming a specialist anaesthetist. On leaving the Army he worked in Law Hospital, and in 1946 was appointed lecturer in anaesthetics to St Andrews University and anaesthetist in charge of the department of anaesthetics at Dundee Royal Infirmary, a post funded jointly by the university and the hospital. He assumed a whole-time consultant post in 1947 on the inception of the NHS and proceeded MD in 1948. He saw the department grow from one resident anaesthetist and himself, together with a few general-practitioner anaesthetists, to a total of 24 on his retirement in 1972. Always a staunch supporter of the Scottish Society of Anaesthetists, he was elected its president in 1953. He was an excellent clinical anaesthetist, and this was his main interest. He had little time for committees and did not consider that he was really fulfilling his duties unless he was working in the operating theatre, where, until the day of his retirement, he put in a prodigious number of sessions, often working into the small hours. He had a wonderful sense of humour and an ability to remain cheerful under the most trying circumstances. Dr Shearer built up a happy department in which his adherence to the traditional values of medicine was an example to all who worked with him. His death is a great loss to his wife,
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daughters, and son, and his memory will be held in respect, gratitude, and affection by all who knew him.-JIML.
J DALZIEL MRCS, LRCP Dr J Dalziel, who was in general practice at Enfield, Middlesex, died on 12 December. He was 70. John Dalziel was born at Derby on 23 April 1905. His first love was the sea and his early education was in HMS Conway, then moored in the Mersey at Rock Ferry. In 1920 he joined the Union Castle line and obtained his master's certificate. In 1932 he came ashore and St Bartholomew's Hospital was farseeing enough to accept this master mariner as a mature student. He qualified in 1937 and did resident appointments at Croydon General Hospital. Just before the outbreak of the second world war he joined a practice at Enfield which had already a long-established tradition of service to the church, the community, and medicine. He lived up to this tradition and soon became churchwarden of Jesus Church and trustee of the Enfield parochial charities. He was a member of the staff of Enfield War Memorial Hospital and chairman of the medical staff committee. He was on the hospital management committee after the inception of the NHS and was a keen founder member of the Enfield and Potters Bar Division of the BMA, becoming its chairman. With all this he found time to devote to the sea, latterly having a well-loved yacht aptly named Providence. John was a man who was always courteous and helpful. His main characteristic was steadfastness, whether in his dealings with patients, weekend yachtsmen discussing a projected passage, would-be atheistical colleagues, or schemers of medicopolitical action. His memory will be held in respect by his many colleagues and friends. Dr Dalziel is survived by his wife, son, and three daughters. -HRS.
A McALLISTER LRCP&SED, LRFPSGLAS Dr A McAllister, who was in general practice at Thornton Heath, Surrey, for 27 years, died on 20 November. He was 59. Archibald McAllister was born on 21 November 1915 into an Edinburgh family that produced three doctors. He was educated at Boroughmuir School and qualified at Edinburgh in 1940. After a house appointment at
Ayr County Hospital he joined the Forces and served for four years in the RAMC. He went to India, Assam, and Burma, and was among those cut off in Kohima. In India he met and married his wife, who was a nursing sister QAIMNS/R. Both served in the 14th British General Hospital. After demobilisation he worked at Mayday Hospital, Thornton Heath, and later joined a practice in that town. A lifelong member of the BMA, he served on the executive committee of the Croydon Division. When younger Dr McAllister was a keen rugby player and represented Edinburgh against Glasgow. He played golf from childhood, winning many trophies. For eight years he was secretary of the Scottish Medical
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Golfing Society and last year their captain. He was also captain of Croydon Scottish Golfing Society. He was loved by his family, patients, and friends. A dour Scot whose word was his bond, conscientious in everything he did, he was indeed a doctor in the finest tradition. His Christian witness was borne out by his great courage in his progressive illness, and he will be sadly missed by all. He is survived by his wife and two daughters. -ERS.
M McGILLIVRAY MC, MB, CHB
Dr M McGillivray, who was in general practice at Dundee for over 45 years, died on
21 December. He
was
83.
Malcolm McGillivray was born at Perth of Highland stock on 12 October 1892 and went to Dundee as a boy. He was educated at Harris Academy and St Andrews University, where he graduated in medicine in 1916 He immediately joined the Forces and served with the South Wales Borderers until the end of the first world war, reaching the rank of major and winning the Military Cross on the Somme. After the war, and after house appointments in Dundee Royal Infirmary, he entered general practice in the Hilltown area of Dundee, a kenspeckle figure in an area that had its own special character. He epitomised all that was fine about a general practitioner. Conscientious, hardworking, and deeply concerned about his patients, his kindness and honesty, combined with a dry, typically Scottish humour, endeared him to patients and colleagues alike. He professed no religious belief but exercised at all times the fundamental virtues of toleration and consideration for others. His main relaxations
shooting, walking, and reading. He liked nothing better than to tramp the hills of his beloved north of Scotland. For over 45 years he was rarely without a dog, and we can be sure that each of them was happy to have had were
such a master. Malcolm McGillivray was a bachelor and had been retired for 12 years. His only brother, Donald, who was also in general practice at Dundee, died in 1960. Malcolm's death is a great loss to a wide circle of friends and to the community he served so well.BSR.
K J R CUTHBERT MB, CHB, FRCOG Mr Kenneth Cuthbert, consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist to St Mary's Hospital; King Edward Memorial Hospital, Ealing; and Perivale Maternity Hospital, died on 15 January. He was 55. Kenneth Joseph Robson Cuthbert graduated in medicine from Edinburgh University in 1943. After junior posts in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, Hammersmith Hospital, Edgware General Hospital, and Paddington General Hospital he was appointed consultant at Ealing in 1958 and soon after at Paddington General Hospital, which became part of St Mary's. He took the MRCOG in 1947 and became a fellow in 1963. He examined for the DObstRCOG, and was an examiner for the MRCOG at the time of his death. He was a recognised
teacher in the University of London and a lecturer and examiner for the Central Midwives Board. Mr Cuthbert was a skilful clinician for whom no trouble was too great in meeting his patients' needs, helping general practitioners, and supporting his junior staff. His cheerful courage in surmounting the difficulties of repeated serious illnesses inspired great affection and admiration in his colleagues. Long after lesser men might have adopted a more restful way of life this intrepid Yorkshireman returned again and again to full clinical activity. His hobbies were those appropriate to a surgeon: he was a skilled plumber, carpenter, and mechanic. After dealing with his patients' problems he enjoyed doing a round of his colleagues' ailing motorcars, and here, too, his opinion was respected and his advice heeded. He had a very happy family life with his wife and two daughters. This kindly, unassuming man will be sadly missed by them, and by his friends and colleagues.-AMD.
347 the second world war, but even at that time he held a Territorial commission and he engaged forthwith on his wartime career in the RAMC. During this he rose to the rank of colonel. He commanded the 131 Field Armbulance in the North African desert, where he was decorated with the MBE, presented by General Montgomery. From D-Day he was with the Army in Europe. Although he came to general practice at Ruddington in 1946, he continued to serve with vigour in the Army Emergency Reserve until he retired at the age limit. From his arrival at Ruddington he remained an excellent example of a general practitioner, completely dedicated to the practice, its people, and the village in which he served. A natural leader in any community, he spent his life and health working for us all, and he richly deserves our gratitude. In late years he was not well enough to continue in practice, but he rejoiced in his work on medical boards and tribunals, finally dying as no doubt he wished, at the end of a full day's activity. He leaves his wife Kath, two sons and a daughter, and very many friends.-AHM.
MARY H Y REMFRY MB, BS
Dr Mary Remfry died suddenly in her sleep on 21 December at her home at Hove. She was 81. Mary Hilda Youle Blakeston was born at Rotherhithe, near the Surrey Docks, where her father was a vicar. Later they moved to
the Yorkshire village of Womersley. She graduated from the Royal Free Hospital, London, in 1922 and after a house appointment went to the Children's Hospital in Mandalay, Burma, where she stayed until her marriage three years later to Judge C 0 Remfry. At that time there was no hospital or other treatment available there for the many sufferers from tuberculosis. Dr Remfry became deeply concerned in helping to create the Bengal Tuberculosis Association, a flourishing organisation with which she kept in touch over the years. For this work she received the Kaisar-i-Hind gold medal from King George VI. After her husband's retirement in 1938 until his death in 1961 they lived at Bexhill-on-Sea, where they both became enthusiastic gardeners. For the past 13 years she lived at Hove in Sussex. For 40 years Dr Remfry took an active part in the work of Moral Rearmament, taking special interest in its overseas development and welcoming to her home students and others from many nations. Her faith and purpose, combined with a lively sense of humour and a love for people, won for her the love and gratitude of a multitude of friends around the world.-OKB.
W S HARVEY MBE, ERD, TD, MB, CHB
Dr W S Harvey, for many years in practice at Ruddington, Nottingham, died on 19 December. He was 66. William Simpson Harvey was born at
Tranent. He spent his early years at Edinburgh and was educated at the Royal High School and Edinburgh University, where he graduated in medicine in 1934. After occupying posts at Edinburgh and Dumfries he was already established in practice in Leicester before
G M INGALL MB, CHB, MRCGP
Dr George M Ingall, for many years in general practice at Longtown, Cumbria, died suddenly on 10 January. He was 48. George Matthew Ingall was born at Bonningate, Kendal, on 16 March 1927 and educated at Windermere Grammar School and Manchester University. After graduating he entered the Royal Navy in 1951 and served as surgeon lieutenant until 1955. He then spent six months at St
Mary's Hospital, Manchester, studying midwifery before moving to Carlisle to assist in a group practice for two years. Since 1958 he had been in general practice at Longtown. An untiring worker in many local activities, he will be sadly missed,
especially by the Swimming Pool Committee, the Memorial Hall Committee, and the local church, where he was a member of the parochial council. Dr Ingall was medical officer for the RAF, Carlisle. He was a member of the executive committee of the Cumberland Division of the BMA from 1962 and chairman in 1966-7 and again in 1974-5. Popular with his colleagues, he was currently president of the East Cumbria Division and represented Cumberland from 1973 to 1975 at Annual Representative Meetings. He was treasurer of the North of England Faculty of the Royal College of General Practitioners for almost 10 years. Those who knew George, colleagues and patients alike, knew him as a family doctor in the true sense of the word, for he was devoted to his family and his patients. He will be gratefully remembered by Longtown as their friend and doctor who did so much for them. Doctor Ingall is survived by his wife Kay and by his daughter and two sons.-GR.
