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Robinson, Ronald Henry Ottywell Betham, 1896-1973, surgeon
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1896-1973
History
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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Further information is available at the National Archives (F73481)