MEET (SOME OF) THE MEDICS David Cottrell (60-70) Eye Surgeon, First Class Hons at Oxford, Physiological Sciences, Medicine at Newcastle, Vitreo-retinal surgeon Thomas Addison (1805-1812) Noted Physician & Scientist (b.1793-1860) Mark Akenside (c1732) Physician & Poet (b.1721-1770)
Charles Nathaniel ‘Nattie’ Armstrong (1909-14) Neurologist and Endocrinologist, also Muscular Dystrophy. Lecture Theatre at RVI named after him Anthony Askew Censor at Royal College Physicians and Registrar. Possessed notable library. (b.1722-74)
Professor Sir K G ‘George’ M M Alberti (46-55) Physician (spec. diabetes), Pres. Royal Coll. Physicians Peter W R M Alberti (45-52) Otolaryngologist (Canada), brother of above Nadeem Ali (84-94) Consultant Adult Squint Surgeon, Moorfields, London. Honorary Senior Lecturer at St George’s Medical School, London University
Professor John Anderson (46-53) Academic Dean of Newcastle Medical School – ONA Dinner Speaker
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Bibek ‘Ben’ Banerjee (78-85) Vascular Surgeon at Sunderland Gen. Hosp. Army Res. Colonel, Hon. Surgeon to HM Queen
Henry G ‘Bingie’ Barnes (32-39) School Medical Officer from 1969 to 1986 Will Breakey (98-03) Plastic Surgeon, UCL PhD in Craniofacial Surgery. Food Industry Entrepreneur (Dr Will’s health foods) Ernest G Brewis (1920-26) Child Welfare Medical Officer in Newcastle, active in WW2 and after in RNVR (b.1908-1975) Sir John Alexander Charles KCB (1907-10) Various posts at RVI, then First Chief Medical Officer of Health (b.1893-1971)
Commemorated on the school organ William Bell (1903-07) Surgeon RN, Served in Dardanelles, joined HMS Thunderer in Grand Fleet, died of pneumonia 1922 effects of war wounds
Howard Tomlin Hunter (1896-) MB, BS Medicine at Newcastle, then St Barts’ London, Vienna. Captain Northumb. Fusiliers. Killed at 2nd Battle Ypres, 1915
Arthur Gibson Dunn (1895-98) MD,BS, Newcastle Medical School, Reserve MO at Newcastle Dispensary, Lieut. RAMC 1917, killed 3rd Battle Ypres September 1917
Francis ‘Frank’ Metcalfe (1901-09) MB, BS Captain 1st Northumberland Field Ambulance, 1915, Wounded at Flanders, invalided home, retired to France 1917, wounded again, died July 1918
Peter Enevoldson (65-75) Consultant Neurologist and former Medical Director, Walton, Liverpool. Rugby player with London Irish; captain when Oxford beat Cambridge 9-3 (1973) Harvey Evers (1905-10) Founder member of Royal College of Obs and Gyn. Clinic in Clayton Road (b.1893-1979) George Young Feggetter FRCS (1917-21) Surgeon, Urologist, Newcastle RVI, 1905-20 Stewart Young Feggetter FRCS (1920-27) Paediatrics, Consultant Surgeon, Newcastle General Hospital (b.1908-90) John ‘Jack’ Barnes Forster (38-48) Consultant Neurologist at Newcastle General Hospital Leonard Maurice ‘Sammy’ Franks (32-38) Leading histopathologist at Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF) Founder member of the Royal College of Pathologists
