Born Wellington 22/11/1892    Died Auckland 5/6/1969

Educated at Wanganui Collegiate, Trinity College Cambridge, St Thomas's Hospital, London

MA Hons (Camb) 1912, MRCS (Eng), LRCP (Lond) 1916, DA RCP (Lond) & RCS (Eng) 1935, FFARCS (Eng) 1949, FFARACS 1952 (foundation fellow), R H Orton Medallion FARACS 1969

WW1 service with the RN;  brief repatriation leave to NZ before returning to England
Anaesthetist, Birmingham Hospital 1919 - 1920
Senior Anaesthetist, Birmingham Children's Hospital 1921

Visiting Anaesthetist, Wellington Hospital 1921 - 1940
(the first specialist anaesthetist in NZ)

WW2 service with NZMC 8/1940 - 8/1945, mainly in Egypt, where he was SMO Maadi Camp

Director of Anaesthesia, Auckland Hospital Board 1946 - 31/12/1957.   Involved with the setting up of the Greenlane Hospital Cardiothoracic Surgery Unit

First President NZ Society of Anaesthetists 1948 - 1953

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