MEET (SOME OF) THE MEDICS

Thomas Addison (1805-1812)

Noted Physician & Scientist (b.1793-1860)

Mark Akenside (c1732)

Physician & Poet (b.1721-1770)

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

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)

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

Arthur Gibson Dunn (1895-98)

MD,BS, Newcastle Medical School, Reserve MO at Newcastle Dispensary, Lieut. RAMC 1917, killed 3rd Battle Ypres September 1917

Howard Tomlin Hunter (1896-)

MB, BS Medicine at Newcastle, then St Barts’ London, Vienna. Captain Northumb. Fusiliers. Killed at 2nd Battle Ypres, 1915

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

David Cottrell (60-70)

Eye Surgeon, First Class Hons at Oxford, Physiological Sciences, Medicine at Newcastle, Vitreo-retinal surgeon

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

Sir Ian Gilmore (2006-10)

Herpetologist, President, Royal College Physicians (b.1947)

Craig Goldsmith (84-92)

Eye Surgeon, Medicine at Cambridge, Junior Doctor E. Anglia, VR surgeon in Norfolk

John Hall (1830s)

Shipowner. Bequeathed £100K in 1899 equiv. to £13 million today to rebuild Infirmary as RVI (equally matched by Armstrong family)

William Hardcastle

Medical Officer for many years at H M Prison in Newcastle

Thomas Emerson Headlam

Physician to Newcastle and Gateshead Infirmaries, Politician, Reformist (b.1777-1864)

Zamin Hussain (01-11)

Made BBC documentary on making improvised prosthetic limbs during elective in Bangladesh

James Jurin (Headmaster from 1710-15)

Retired to Cambridge to take Degree in Medicine FRCS, FRS

Graham ‘Reg’ Kirkby (60-70)

Eye Surgeon, qualified in Medicine Newcastle 1975, MO in RAF (Germany), Consultant at the Birmingham and Midland Eye Hospital

Alistair Laidlaw (74-80)

Eye Surgeon, Medicine at Newcastle, working with D Cottrell, later Moorfields, then St Thomas’London; involved with medical politics

Lee Longstaff (85-90)

Orthopaedic Surgeon, Surgical training in Cambridge & Newcastle, then Fellowship Training Melbourne/Perth Australia. Practice specialising in hip and knee arthritis

Sir John McNee DSO (1897-1904)

Physician and Pathologist, became President of BMA, Physician to King George Vl 1937-52. Donor of McNee Prize (b.1887-1984)

Harold H Nixon (1927)

Paediatrics, Gt Ormond St, Hon. Fellow of US, Irish & Australian College of Surgeons (b.1918-90)

Sir George Pickering (1913-20)

Regius Professor of Medicine, Oxford (b.1904-80)

George Pallister (26-66)

Teacher of Biology who set scores of RGS students on their path to a medical career

Mary Forster Richardson

Wife of Headmaster Ebenezer Thomas (20-48). Doctor in Penrith during evacuation and looked after boys’ medical problems

Professor Stephen Robson (1985-95)

Senior Lecturer in Obstetrics at Newcastle Uni 1993, Prof. Fetal Medicine 1994. Previously Head of Antenatal Services at NUTH. Academic Committee

Eric Saint (27-36)

(1918–1989), Physician and Professor of Medicine

David Salkeld (30-38)

Wartime Orthopaedic/Trauma Doctor. Popular local GP for over 50 years

Tony Sarma (85-95)

Veterinary training at Edinburgh and Cambridge. Specialised in complex surgeries on small animals (b.1977-2013)

Ray J Scothorne (30-37)

Professor of Anatomy at Newcastle University (1960-73)

Samuel Baron Segal (1913-18)

Physician, Labour Party Politician and Deputy Speaker of House of Lords (b.1902-85)

Keir Shiels (93-00)

Read Natural Science at Cambridge changed to Paediatrics, featured in BBC Young Doctors, Your Life in Their Hands, 2013

Sir James Calvert Spence, FRCP MC & Bar (1892 – 1954)

Founding member of the British Paediatric Assoc. Won Military Cross and Bar for heroic actions at end of WW1. Founding member of the British Paediatric Assoc.

David Steel (79-84)

Eye Surgeon, Medicine at Newcastle, Opthamology (Newcastle, Sunderland, Bristol, Melbourne). Consultant Vitreo-retinal Surgeon at Sunderland

Sir Arthur Munro Sutherland (1867-1953)

Donated equivalent of £6 million to establish Newcastle Medical School, also the Sutherland Dental School, Lord Mayor, Chair of Governors, Great benefactor to the School

Arthur Taylor CBE (33-41)

Governor, a founder of St Oswald’s Hospice, GMC member and Chair Newcastle AHA 1982-92

Rodney Turner (36-46)

RAMC, taught at Guys Hospital, GP, President London ONA

Peter Walker (52-60)

Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, New York University Hospital for Joint Diseases, former Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University College London and Fellow of the RGS

Matthew Walton (01-11)

Made BBC documentary on making improvised prosthetic limbs during elective in Bangladesh

Eric Wilkes (30-37)

National expert in palliative care; frequent broadcaster. (b.1920-2009). See ONA Magazine Sp 2010

Nicholas Wright (42-50)

First visiting Psychiatrist to H M Prison, Winchester. Real Tennis Champion. (b.1932-2016)