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11 unusual facts about Royal College of Surgeons of England


Arthur Samuel Kendall

He became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1884 and was Medical Health Officer for Cape Breton.

Barber surgeon of Avebury

Keiller sent the remains to the curator of the museum at the Royal College of Surgeons, whom he felt would appreciate the find.

Herbert Alexander Bruce

He was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons.

John Bernard Partridge

Born in London, he was the son of Professor Richard Partridge, F.R.S., president of the Royal College of Surgeons, and nephew of John Partridge, portrait-painter extraordinary to Queen Victoria.

Khodayyir Abbas

A Shia Muslim and surgeon, member of the UK Royal College of Surgeons, he is a member of the Daawa Party.

Lenrie Peters

He was a fellow of the West African College of Surgeons and the Royal College of Surgeons in England.

Lister Medal

The Lister Medal is an award presented by the Royal College of Surgeons of England in recognition of contributions to surgical science.

Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata

The new courses of study, based on the advice of the Royal College of Surgeons in London, were introduced in 1844, and were ultimately recognised by them, by the London University and the Society of Apothecaries in 1846.

Naguib Pasha Mahfouz

In 1943, the Royal College of Surgeons of England elected Sir Winston Churchill, Mrs Chiang Kai-Shek and Professor Naguib Mahfouz as Honorary Fellows of the College, the highest honour the Royal College can bestow.

Peter Bellinger Brodie

While residing with his father at Lincoln's Inn Fields, he gained some knowledge of natural history and an interest in fossils from visits to the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, at a time when William Clift was curator.

William Acton

In part because of his previous experience in the field, Acton was accepted into the Royal College of Surgeons.


Ambrose Woodall, 1st Baron Uvedale of North End

Ambrose Edgar Woodall, 1st Baron Uvedale of North End MD, FRCS (24 April 1885 – 28 February 1974), known as Sir Ambrose Woodall between 1931 and 1946, was a British surgeon.

Clem Windsor

While living in England, Windsor worked at the Leicester City General Hospital and in 1950 gained his FRCS both of Edinburgh and England.

Daniel Sokol

He has been a Visiting Scholar in Bioethics at Washington Hospital Center, Washington DC, and Providence St. Vincent Medical Center, Oregon, and has sat on a number of committees, including those of the Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of Justice, and the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

German Resource Center for Genome Research

The RLDB office in London was located in the main ICRF building at Lincoln's Inn Fields, Holborn and later moved to bigger premises in the adjacent Royal College of Surgeons building.

Hedley Atkins

Sir Hedley John Barnard Atkins KBE (30 December 1905 – 26 November 1983) was the first professor of surgery at Guy's Hospital and President of the Royal College of Surgeons.

Milroy Paul

Paul was the first Ceylonese to deliver the Hunterian Oration at the Royal College of Surgeons of England on three occasions - The Surgical Anatomy of the Spermatic Cord (1950), Congenital Abnormalities of the Midline Abdominal Wall (1953) and Haemorrhages from Head Injuries (1955).

Okwesilieze Nwodo

He continued his studies at the Royal College of Surgeons, London (1980) and the Belgrade Medical School, Yugoslavia (1980–84), gaining an MB.BS in Medicine and Surgery.

William Williams Keen

After 1894 he was foreign corresponding member of the Société de Chirurgie de Paris, the Société Belge de Chirurgie, and the Clinical Society of London; honorary fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Chirurgie, the Palermo Surgical Society, and the Berliner Medicinische Gesellschaft, and associate fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.