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OBITUARY NOTICES
B. BARLING
M.D., F.RLC.P.
Dr. B. Barling, emeritus physician to St.
James's Hospital, London, and to St. Ebba's
Hospital, Epsom, died on 10 April. He
was 70.
Benjamin Barling was born in London on
15 July 1902 and educated at University
College S c h o o l
and Repton.
His undergraduate career was at
ColI e g e Hospital,
where he qualified with the
University
Con-joint
dip-
loma in 1926, obaiig die unit
prize in surgery
and the Fellows
silver medal for
medicine. He took
the M.B., B.S.
the following year, proceeded M.D. in 1929,
and became F.R.C.P. in 1945.
Dr. Barling always remembered his early
appointmen-t as obstetric assistant, when he
was in charge of the students and midwives
on the maternity district. After other house
appointments, including those of house
physician and house surgeon at the West
London Hospital, he was appointed as a
physician to St. Mary's Hospital, Islington.
From there he was transferred to the Postgraduate Medical School at Hammersmith
under Sir Francis Fraser. One of his duties
was to take Sir Frederick Menzies round
the hospital each Sunday. In 1936 he was
appointed physician and deputy superintendent at St. Mary Abbot's Hospital. It was
there that he first organized weekly ward
rounds for the local general practitioners as
well as postgraduate courses for M.D. and
M.R.C.P. students. The hospital was heavily
bombed during his stay and he had more
experience of this after his appointment as
consulting physician to St. James's Hospital
in 1943, where he was to spend the rest of
his professional life. He reintroduced the
weekly ward rounds for general practitioners,
at first attended by the whole of the medical
staff, and later to this day conducted by one
consultant after another. At the end of the
war 30 registrars, all with Government
grants, were allocated to him, the majority
passing the M.R.C.P. examination and
attaining consultant posts.
Naturally he was appointed to various
committees, mainly with a clinical flavour,
and was made the college's regional adviser
to the Postgraduate Medical Federation on
Postgraduate Education. He was also a member of the Action and Uses Subcommittee of
the British Pharmaceutical Codex and a
honorary member of the Guild of Hospital
Pharmacists. After retirement in 1967 he
began private consulting practice in Harley
Street and at his home, as well as acting as
consultant to the Ministry of Pensions.
Benjy Barling was above all known as the
doctors' physician. He was easily approachable and compassionate and his qualities
were early recognized by his colleagues. He
made himself available without complaint to
the many calls for help from friends,
colleagues, and nursing and admninistrative
staff. He had had to battle with the effects of
rheumatic heart disease all his professional
life and was much helped by a cardiac
operation in 1962, but he did not survive a
very major operation at a time when he had
become a cardiac cripple. By his death -his
patients will suffer a wellnigh irreplaceable
loss. He was a small man who will leave a
very large void in their lives and in the lives
of his friends. His wife predeceased him and
he had no children.-N.C.T.
Gloucestershire Royal Infirmary and Eye
Institution. As a surgeon lieutenantcommander R.N.V.R. he served throughout
the second world war, first in home waters,
then as a specialist at Barrow Gurney Hospital, and finally with the Eastern Fleet at
Colombo. After the war he resumed his
duties at Gloucester and on the introduction
of the N.H.S. became consultant ophthalmic
surgeon and a member of the National
Ophthalmic Treatment Board.
Mr. Freeman was for several years a representative of the Gloucestershire Branch at
Annual Meetings of the B.M.A., and also
held office as president of the branch and
chairman of the hospital medical committee.
He contributed to the literature of his
specialty. A keen painter in oils, he also
took an interest in the propagation of cacti.
He is survived by his wife and two
daughters.-E.N.D.
J.C.B. writes: The recent death of Dr.
Benjamin Barling after a cardiac operation W. A. M. SMART
will bring a great sense of loss and sadness
to many. Those of us who had the privilege B.SC., M.B., B.S.
of working with him as a colleague were
only too aware of his great skills in his Dr. W. A. M. Smart, formerly a lecturer in
vocation, and those of us who had the added physiology and pharnacology at the London
privilege of his friendship knew him as a Hospital medical college, died at the Royal
personality of great sympathy and feeling Victoria Hospital, Bournemouth, on 4 March
for all with whom he came in contact. after a short illness. He was 93.
Indeed, he would often emphasize that one's William Arthur Merrett Smart was born at
approach to a patient was as important as Gloucester on 6 December 1879, the eldest
one's technical ability, since the patient son of a printer. He received his early educould always appreciate the formner if not cation at Sir Thomas Rich's School, Glouthe latter. It was typical of him that on his cester, and left at the age of 15 to become a
wife's death -he initiated a nurse's prize in pupil teacher. He later trained for two years
her name at St. James's Hospital not for at St. Paul's College, Cheltenham, and emknowledge or professional atbility but for barked on a teaching career as a teacher of
kindness. His hobbies were oil painting, at science at Maidenhead Technical College. In
which he excelled, and an occasional social the early 1900s he moved to London, obgame of bridge, but whatever he engaged in tained his B.Sc. by part-time study, and then
it wuas with a sense of humour, which did became a student at the London Hospital.
not diminish with his recently increasing After qualifying he joined the staff of the
cardiac pain and restricted life. His loss medical college just after the first world
leaves a gap which will be difficult to fill. war as a demonstrator and remained there
for the rest of his working life, becoming
well-known to the many generations of
"Londoners" who passed through his hands.
He worked in close collaboration with the late
J. D. J. FREEMAN
Professor Roaf, and subsequently with ProM.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., D.O.M.S.
fessor D. T. Harris. He was joint author
with the latter and Professor Gilding of a
Mr. J. D. J. Freeman, formerly consultant book on experimental physiology, and was
ophthalmic surgeon at the Gloucestershire for many years the editor of Furneaux's
Royal Hospital, died on 13 December. He Human Physiology-a book well-known in
the nursing profession and to many students
was 67.
John David Joseph Freeman was born on of elemnentary physiology. He always took a
8 October 1905, the son of a doctor, and great interest in the medical library at the
qualified from St. Thomas's Hospital in London Hospital, and during the second
1930. After appointments as ophthalmic world war became known for his "medical
house surgeon at the Central London garden" in the hospital grounds, in which
Ophthalmic Hospital and senior ophthalmic he grew a number of plants for supplying
house surgeon at St. Thomas's Hospital 'he drugs which at that time were scarce and
took the diploma in ophthalmic medicine and difficult to obtain.
Professor Harris has written: "We mourn
surgery and in 1933 was appointed honorary
assistant ophthalmic surgeon to the the loss of so kind and most loyal a colleague.
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He showed genuine concem for everybody,
and particularly for the students, whom he
regarded as his responsibility and whom he
always referred to as his boys. It was a great
boon to me to have so reliable a oleague;
he was a great stidcler for accuracy, and so
was 100% dependable, and, above all, a
of tumour pathology in la-boratory animals,
particularly in the hamster. An atlas of
tumour pathology on which he had been
working will provide a record of his achievements, but his many friends will remember
him as a unique individual as well as an
outstanding pathologist.
friend.
Dr. Smart's first wife whom he married in
1904, died in 1953. He is survived by his
second wife.-J.S.
W. H. PATTERSON
M.D., D.C.H.
A. L. ALBAN
M.RLC.S., L.R.C.P., D.O.M.S.
Dr. A. L. Alban, who was working for the
City of Cardiff Health Department and the
Glamorgan Health Authority, died suddenly
at his home on 22 January. He was 61.
Austen Leonard Alban was born at Pontypridd on 3 May 1911 and educated at
Liandovery College, the Welsh National
School of Medicine at Cardiff,
~:a n d University
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College Hospital,
qualifying
in
1937. He trained
at Moorfields Eye
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F. C CHESTERMAN
M.B., B.S., F.R.C.PATH.
Dr. F. C. Chesterman, who was on the staff
of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, died
suddenly on 3 April. He was 50.
Frederick Clement Chesterman was born
at Bath on 20 February 1923, the second son
of Dr. and Mrs. Clement Chesterman, of
Hampstead, a n d
was educated at
Monkton Combe
School
and
versity
Uni-
College
School. He graduated f r o m the
Middlesex Hospital
in
gaiing
Mury
ship
1946,
the John
scholar-
and
gold
medal for pathology. After the
usual
house
jobs
Dr. W. H. Patterson, who died on 12 August
1972 at the age of 68, will be remembered
for his distinguished work as a paediatrician
and administrator at Booth Hall Children's
Hospital, Manchester.
William Hannah Patterson was born on
17 June 1904 and studied medicine at
Vienna and Belfast, where he graduated in
1926 and proceeded MD. in 1932. He took
the D.C.H. in 1936. In 1930 he went to
Booth Hall Children's Hospital, first as a
resident then successively as resident medical
officer, deputy medical superintendent, and
physician superintendent. He attracted a
loyal nursing, medical, and ancillary staff,
and over the years created a remarkable
hospital. In his approach to the problems
of the care of the sick child he was far
ahead of his time. In his quiet and efficient
way he introduced measures 30 years ago
that have only now become generally
accepted in this country but are still debatable in Europe. He realized the loneliness of
the sick child and established visiting during
the lunch hour, when a mother could come
while her other children were at school, and
in the evening for the fathers after their
return from work. The parents were encouraged to participate in the care of their
children. He regarded school work as the
best occupational therapy for children above
5 years of age and persuaded the local
authority committee to establish a large
school, consisting of a headmaster and seven
teachers.
Dr. Patterson was a skilled clinician, an
expert paediatrician who demanded first and
foremost high standards from himself and
his residents. Many enjoyed his help with
their first papers and survived his quiet,
astringent criticism to go on to senior posts.
The ideals he pursued with such tenacity of
purpose will never be forgotten by them.
He added a number of contributions to the
paediatric literature. The most important,
made with other members of the hospital
staff, was a histochemical study which
showed that a blood derivative was the
origin of pulmonary hyaline membrane and
demonstrated its protein nature.
He is survived by his wife and five children, two of whom are doctors.-A.H.,
N.M.M.
he became an
assistant at the Bland-Sutton Institute of
Pathology and later did two years' national
service as a graded pathologist in the
R.A.M.C., serving at Colchester and Catterick as an acting major. For the last 20 years
he was on the staff of the Imperial Cancer
Research Fund at Mill Hill. His interests
covered a wide field in cancer research, but
he was particularly concerned with the
structure and pathology of virus-induced
tumours in animals. As an expert on hamster
diseases he had a world-wide reputation. He
served on many committees, including those
of the British Association for Cancer Research, the Experimental Pathology Club,
and the Laboratory Aninal Science Association, and was on the editorial board of the
W.H.O. manual on tumour pathology and
laboratory animals.
His was a buoyant and humorous nature
which made him a much beloved friend and
colleague, sometimes perhaps too ready to
help and to undertake arduous extra tasks.
His main hobby was sailing from the family
chalet on the Solent and on the Welsh Harp.
He enjoyed music and saps in the United
Hospitals Choir. His election to the F.R.C.
Path. came a few weeks before his untimely
death. Dr. Chesterman is survived by his G.S.S. writes: Patterson's services to
paediatrics at Manchester were considerable,
wife, two sons, and a daughter.-C.C.C.
particularly before the National Health SerL.M.F. writes: Freddy Chesterman had a vice came into being in 1948. Consultant
talent for friendship and a character which cover was light and very muich part time, so
made it difficult for him to refuse any re- that he carried a heavy clinical responsiquest, reasonable or otherwise, for help of bility. He was one of the most conscientious
any kind. Indeed, much of his time was spent people I have known and so quiet, shy, and
on work for others, often, at his request, unassuming that relatively few people were
unacknowledged. He was a man with a great aware of his real contribution. I had the
enthusiasm for people, his hobbies, and his highest opinion of both his professional skill
work. He had a large and expert knowledge and his personal honesty and integrity.
Hospital, London,
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and t o o k the
D.O.M.S. in
Having served
in the Royal Air
Force in the
Middle East during the second
world war, he developed a liking for the
East, and in 1950 was appointed senior
ophthalmic surgeon to the State and ruler of
Kuwait, where he established an eye hospital,
sending many of his young housemen to
Moorfields to qualify. Although primarily
attending the sheiks and people of Kuwait,
he was keenly interested in the Bedouin and
introduced a sight-testing card particularly
for them and the pearl divers. This included
the Arab dow, camel, and coffee pot, which
the Bedouin could easily recognize, being at
that time illiterate. In 1964, having completed his work in Kuwait, he returned to
his home at Penarth, Glamorgan, where he
undertook ophthalmic work for the health
departments.
In 'his younger days Dr. Allban was a
keen golfer and played rugby for his medical
school, while his many Siamese cats were
known throughout Kuwait. Held in great
esteem and affection by all who knew him,
he will be sadly missed for his courtesy,
unfailing good humour, and cheerfulness. He
is survived by his wife.-M.P.J.
0. EDWARDS
M.B., CH.B., D.P.H., M.F.C.M.
Dr. 0. Edwards, deputy county medical
officer of health for Caernarvonshire, died
on 28 January. He was 49.
Owen Edwards was born at Liverpool of
Welsh parents on 24 March 1923. During
the second world war he entered the armed
Forces as a private and had attained the
rank of captain when he was invalided out
He then studied medicine and graduated at
Liverpool University in 1955. After house
appointments at Llandudno General Hospital and a long period of ill health he
entered the field of public health in 1965 as
an assistant medical officer, first with the
City of Liverpool and later with the
Lancashire County Council. He took the
D.P.H. in 1967 and in 1970 became deputy
county M.O.H. and deputy principal school
medical officer for Caernarvonshire. Unfortunately his health began to fail again,
but he struggled on until last July and was
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off duty from then until he died. Last year
he was elected to membership of the
Faculty of Community Medicine and b:came
chairman of the North Wales Multiple
Sclerosis Society.
When he was 18 Owen Edwards was
awarded a silver medal in horticulture and
he maintained great interest in the subject
throughout his life. Kind in disposition,
dedicated to *his wife and two young
daughters and to his home and chapel, he
bore his illness with admirable fortitude.
-C.T.B.
BELLAMY
M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.
E.
Dr. E. Bellamy, formerly in general practice
at Eythorne, Dover, died on 29 January. He
was 66.
Edward Bellamy, the son and grandson of
doctors, was born on 20 February 1906 and
educated at Wellington College and Guy's
Hospital, where he qualified with the Conjoint diploma in 1929. He immediately
joined his father in general practice in Kent
and remained with him until 1938, when he
served in France with a field battery of the
Royal Artillery and took part in the evacuation from Dunkirk. After a spell in England
he served for the remainder of the war in
East Africa.
A forthright man, Dr. Bellamy found in
the blunt miners of the Kent coalfield
characters much to his liking. Though he
gave short shrift to leadswingers he gained
a reputation for endless and conscientious
patience with the genuinely sick, especially
with children and the elderly. During the
years of partnership with his father, during
which he lived at Barham, near Canterbury,
he played a large part in village life, being
actively involved in the local gardeners'
society. He moved to Eythorne in 1957 and
in his spare time developed his keen interest
in literature, especially in his eighteenth
century book collection. Throughout his
career he was supported by his wife, who
survives him together with a daughter.-P.B.
A. McGLASHAN
M.B., CH.B., D.O.M.S., D.O.
Dr. A. McGlashan, who was formerly in
general practice at Manchester, died on 18
January. He was 71.
Alexander McGlashan was born at Glasgow on 30 June 1901 and graduated in
medicine at Glasgow University in 1923.
Initially he intended to become an eye surgeon and attended postgraduate training in
Vienna and Glasgow. Later he took appointments as assistant surgeon at Glasgow Eye
Infirmary and then as oculist to the Renfrewshire Education Authority. In 1926 he took
the diploma in ophthalmic medicine and
surgery of the English royal colleges and the
much coveted D.O. Oxford, subsequently
becoming a member of the Ophthalmic
Society. For many years he was adviser to
the Australian and Canadian Governments in
the medical examination of potential emigrants and was also a medical referee for the
Ministry of Labour and the Ministry of
Pensions. He gave many years of devoted
service to the B.M.A. and was a first-class
committeeman and fearless in debate. In
1969 he was admitted to the Roll of Fellows
of the B.M.A.
Dr. McGlashan was a prominent Freemason, holding provincial ranks in east
Lancashire. A devoted family man, he was
never so happy as when he had his wife
Marjory, his children, and his grandchildren
around him.-E.A.G., F.S.C.
A. GWENLLIAN M. LEWIS
M.B., B.S.
Dr. Gwenllian Lewis, a general practitioner
at Rhos-on-Sea, Colwyn Bay, died on 23
January at the age of 73, after a long illness.
Anna Gwenllian Mary Lewis was born on
30 January 1899, eldest daughter of the
headmaster of Llandyssul Granmar School.
After a brilliant scholastic career, in which
she headed her first year at Cardiff Medical
School, she went on to University College
Hospital, where she graduated at 21 and was
one of the first women doctors to graduate
there. Her first appointment was at Great
Ormond Street, and afterwards she became
school medical officer for Carmarthenshire.
She then went into general practice at Rhoson-Sea and served that community for 45
years.
Dr. Lewis was dedicated to her work,
which she carried out unselfishly and with
kindness and sympathy, and she was greatly
loved by all her patients.-RL.
M. D. SEBA-MKONO
M.B., CH.B., M.R.C.P., D.C.H.
of Hayes Park and Mead House psychiatric
nursing homes, died on 15 February. He was
84.
John Stanley Lloyd was bom at Huntington, Herefordshire, on 21 March 1888 and
educated at Edinburgh University, where he
graduated M.B., Ch.B. in 1912. After house
appointments he was in the R.A.M.C. during
the whole of the first world war. He served
in France, attained the rank of major, and
was mentioned in dipatches. After the war
he held appointments at Highbury Hospital,
Birmingham, and proceeded M.D. in 1921,
taking the F.R.C.S.Ed. two years later. He
spent some 12 years as a busy and much
loved practitioner at Hayes before taking
over Hayes Park and Mead House psychiatric nursing homes in partnership. He
administered these with great skill and
success until his retirement 14 years ago.
Dr. Lloyd enjoyed the company of his
many friends. He had a lively and decisive
mind and an excellent sense of humour. A
keen golfer, he gave up only two years ago.
With advancing years he mostly used wooden
clubs with great accuracy even from bunkers.
He played his piano and was an active Freemason until his short final illness overtook
him. He is survived by his wife and two
daughters, one of whom is a doctor.J.D.W.P.
J. M. MUIR
M.B., CH.B.
Dr. J. M. Muir, who was in general practice
at Margute, Kent, died suddenly on 13
March. He was 65.
John Motton Muir was born at Newmilns,
Ayrshire, on 2 April 1907 and graduated in
medicine at Edinburgh University in 1929.
After hospital appointments at Ayr, Oxford,
and Manchester he entered general practice
at Margate in 1933. During the war years
he served in the Royal Navy in H.M.S.
Rodnev and later in the E.M.S. Hospital at
Driffield, Yorkshire.
Outside medicine he was keenly interested
in gardening, sailing, music, and travel. He
was a founder member and past president
of the Thanet Caledonian Society. The
quality of the man and the work he did for
his patients were reflected in his being an
office bearer in the United Reform Church
for almost 40 years. With the blessing of a
happy marriage and a good home he gave a
lifetime of service to others, and it is tragic
that he did not enjoy the reward of a peaceful retirement. He is survived by his wife,
four daughters, and a son, some of whom
carry on the family medical tradition.
-T.G.P.
Dr. M. D. Seba-Mkono, lecturer in paediatrics at the University of Dar es Salaam,
died on 2 February after a motor car accident. He was 33.
Martin Deo Seba-Mkono was born on 24
November 1939 at Geita, Tanzania, and
educated at Tabora School and Makerere
University, Uganda, where he graduated in
medicine in 1967. After serving as a house
officer at Muhimbili Hospital, Dar es Salaam,
and Mulago Hospital, Uganda, he was in
1968 appointed tutorial Fellow to the University of Dar es Salaam, continuing to
work as senior house officer at Mulago
Hospital. In 1969 he became assistant lecturer to the university, and later that year
went to England and worked at the Hospital
for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street;
the Royal Postgraduate Medical School,
Hammnersmith; and St. Charles's Hospital,
Exmoor Street. He took the D.C.H. in 1970
and the M.R.C.P. in 1971 and returned to
Tanzania as lecturer at the University of
Dar es Salaam and specialist paediatrician to
Muhimbili Government Hospital.
An ever cheerful doctor, he was devoted
to sick children. His death is mourned at
Muhinmbili Hospital and by many mothers A memorial service for t-he late Sir Clement
at Dar es Salaam. He is survived by his Price Thomas (obituary, 31 March, p. 807)
will be held in Westminster Abbey on Tueswife and three sons.-H.N., J.K.S.
day, 29 May, at 12 noon.
A memorial service for the late Dr. Malcolm
Donaldson (obituary, 31 March, p. 808) will
M.D., F.R.C.S.ED.
be held in the church of St. Bartholomewthe-Less, Smithfield Gate, St. Bartholomew's
Dr. J. S. Lloyd, formerly medical officer of Hospital, London E.C.1, on Wednesday, 16
health for Hayes, Middlesex, and in charge May, at 12.30 p.m.
J. S. LLOYD