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Ross, Donald Nixon, b 1922, thoracic surgeon

  • KCL-AF0947
  • Person
  • 1922-

Born 4 October 1922, educated at Boys' High School, Kimberley, South Africa; University of Capetown (BSc, MB, ChB, 1946); FRCS 1949; FACC 1973; FACS 1976. Ross was appointed Senior Registrar in Thoracic Surgery, Bristol, 1952; Guy's Hospital: Resident Fellow, 1953; Senior Thoracic Registrar, 1954; Consultant Thoracic Surgeon, 1958; Consultant Surgeon, National Heart Hospital, 1963, Senior Surgeon, 1967; Director, Department of Surgery, Institute of Cardiology, 1970. Awarded Honorary FRCSI 1984; Honorary FRCS Thailand, 1987. Honorary DSc CNAA, 1982. Clement Price Thomas Award, Royal College of Surgeons, 1983. Order of Cedar of Lebanon, 1975; Order of Merit (1st class) (West Germany), 1981; Royal Order (Thailand), 1994. Publications: A Surgeon's Guide to Cardiac Diagnosis , 1962; (jointly) Medical and Surgical Cardiology , 1968; (jointly) Biological Tissue in Heart Valve Replacement , 1972; contributed to the British Medical Journal , Lancet and other journals.

Rosenbaum, Sidney, 1918-2013, Doctor

  • KCL-AF0585
  • Person
  • 1918-2013

Born, London, 1918; educated Cambridge University; 2 Lieutenant, emergency commission, Royal Regiment of Artillery, 1943; temporary Captain, 1945; Principal Scientific Officer, Army Medical Statistics Branch, War Office, 1951-1963; doctorate, University of London, [1961]; died in 2013.

Rose, Hugh James, 1795-1838, theologian and author

  • KCL-AF1033
  • Person
  • 1795-1838

No information is available on Bertha Browne. Hugh James Rose was born at Little Horsted, Sussex, 1795; educated at Uckfield school; studied at Trinity College Cambridge, 1813-1817 (graduated, BA); ordained deacon, 1818; ordained priest, 1819; curate of Buxted, Sussex, 1819; vicar of Horsham, Sussex, 1821-1830; curate of Little Horsted, Sussex and Uckfield, Sussex; vicar of Glynde, Sussex, 1824-1838; spent a year in Germany for his health, 1824, came into contact with the German rationalistic schools of theology, and published four discourses, 'The State of the Protestant Religion in Germany'; collated to the prebend of Middleton in the church of Chichester, 1827-1833; select preacher at Cambridge, 1828-1830, 1833-1834, and Christian advocate, 1829-1833; a leading exponent of King's College London, and of the idea that religious study and practice should form an integral part of higher education; rector of Hadleigh, Suffolk, 1830-1833; met with William Palmer (1803-1885), Arthur Philip Perceval and Richard Hurrell Froude at Hadleigh, 1833 - this 'Hadleigh Conference' being an important milestone in the development of the Oxford Movement; the Association of Friends of the Church was formed soon after by Froude and Palmer; founder and first editor of the British Magazine and Monthly Register of Religious and Ecclesiastical Information , 1832; chair of divinity, Durham University, 1833-1834; domestic chaplain to Archbishop Howley, 1834; rector of Fairsted, Essex, 1834-1837; perpetual curacy of St Thomas's, Southwark, 1835-1838; Principal of King's College London, 1836; died in Florence, 1838. Publications: include: Inscriptiones Græcæ Vetustissimæ. Collegit et Observationes tum aliorum tum suas adjecit Hugo Jacobus Rose, M A (Cambridge, 1825); The Tendency of prevalent opinions about knowledge considered (Cambridge, 1926); The Commission and consequent Duties of the Clergy; in a series of discourses preached before the University of Cambridge (London and Cambridge, 1828); Greek and English Lexicon to the New Testament new edition (London, 1829); Doctrine of the Greek Article applied to the Criticism and Illustration of the New Testament new edition (Cambridge, 1833); The State of the Protestant Religion in Germany; in a series of discourses (Cambridge, 1825); Christianity always Progressive (London, 1829); Brief Remarks on the Disposition towards Christianity generated by prevailing Opinions and Pursuits (London, 1830); Eight Sermons preached before the University of Cambridge at Great St. Mary's in the Years 1830 and 1831 (Cambridge, 1831); Notices of the Mosaic Law: with some Account of the Opinions of recent French Writers concerning it (London, 1831); The Gospel an Abiding System. With some remarks on the "New Christianity" of the St Simonians (London, 1832); An Apology for the Study of Divinity: being, the Terminal Divinity Lecture, delivered in Bishop Cosins's Library, ... Durham (London, 1834); The Study of Church History recommended, being the Terminal Divinity Lecture delivered ... April XV, 1834, before the ... University of Durham (J G & F Rivington, London, 1834); contributed leaders to the British Magazine ; editor of the Encyclopædia Metropolitana .

Rooney, William David, 1921-1979, Air Commodore

  • KCL-AF0584
  • Person
  • 1921-1979

Born 1921; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; joined RAF as an Aircraftman, Jul 1940; trained as a Wireless Operator/Air Gunner, 1940-1941; commissioned, Nov 1941; served in Anti Submarine Sqn, Coastal Command, and as an Instructor in RAF training units, 1942-1945; Flight Lt, Secretarial Branch, RAF, Sep 1945; RAF Staff College, Andover, Hampshire, 1952; Wg Cdr, 1959; Instructor, RAF Staff College, Andover, Hampshire, 1957-1960; employed in Intelligence, RAF Element, Allied Forces Southern Europe, Naples, Italy, 1960-1961; Wg Cdr, Administration, RAF Watton, Norfolk, 1965; Officer Commanding RAF Brampton, Technical Training Command, Huntingdonshire, 1966-1968; Gp Capt, 1969; Deputy Director, Directorate General of RAF Manning, Air Force Department, Ministry of Defence, London, 1969-1971; Director of Recruiting, RAF, Ministry of Defence, London, 1971-1973; Deputy Air Officer, Administration, Headquarters, Maintenance Command (later renamed Support Command), RAF, Andover, Hampshire, 1973-1975; Air Cdre, 1974; retired, 1976; died 1979.

Rogers, Mrs, fl 1884

  • KCL-AF0946
  • Person
  • fl1884

Mrs Rogers, was the widow of an employee at King's College Hospital, and mother of Frank Rogers, also an employee of King's College Hospital.

Robinson, Ronald Henry Ottywell Betham, 1896-1973, surgeon

  • KCL-AF0945
  • Person
  • 1896-1973

R H O B Robinson was born on 16 May 1896, the son of Henry Betham Robinson, MD, MS, FRCS. He was educated at Malvern College; King's College, Cambridge (Senior Scholar); St Thomas's Hospital (University Scholar). He was awarded MA, MB, BCh, FRCS. He served as Temporary Surgeon Lt Cdr, RNVR during World War One; Member of International Society of Urology; President of the British Association of Urological Surgeons; Honorary Secretary, Royal Society of Medicine; Fellow, Association of Surgeons; Member, Society of Thoracic Surgeons; Arris and Gale Lecturer, Royal College of Surgeons; Member, Council, and Chairman, Court of Examiners, Royal College of Surgeons (Eng.); Examiner in Surgery, Universities of Cambridge and Malaya. He was also Senior Surgeon and Urologist, St Thomas's Hospital London, and Consultant Urologist, Ministry of Pensions and St Helier Hospital, Sutton. He was married to Audrey Walker. He died 6 February 1973. Publications: (with William Richard Le Fanu) Lives of Fellows of College of Surgeons , Edinburgh & London: E. & S. Livingstone 1970; articles on Surgery and Urology in textbooks and journals.

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