Percy Sargent

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Percy Sargent

Sir Percy Sargent CMG DSO MB FRCS (born May 8, 1873 in Bristol , according to other information in Chester , Cheshire , † January 22, 1933 in London ) was a British doctor and is considered the most important neurosurgeon in England of his time.

biography

Sargent attended Clifton College in Clifton and St. John's College in Cambridge . He then worked in London at St Thomas' Hospital , where he was most recently Senior Consultant before joining the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in Queen Square as an assistant surgeon . He developed Victor Horsley's surgical techniques and made a name for himself as a brain and nerve surgeon. From 1905 he taught at the "Erasmus Wilson" chair of the Royal College of Surgeons of England . In 1907 he married Mary Louise Ashman, daughter of Sir Herbert Ashman , with whom he later had two sons and a daughter. In 1911 he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order . During the First World War he served as an advisory surgeon for the British Expeditionary Force with his colleague Gordon Morgan Holmes in France . For his service in the rank of Colonel, AMS , he was named Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (CMG) in 1919. In 1923 he was elected to the council of the Royal College of Surgeons and in 1928 he was beaten to a Knight Bachelor . From 1928 he taught as a Hunterian professor for surgery and pathology. A year before his own death, his wife, Mary Louise, passed away.

Sargent was a member of the Invalid Children's Aid Association (ICAA), a founding member of the Society of British Neurological Surgeons and a member of the United Grand Lodge of England . He was also Chairman of Battersea Branch and Secretary of the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund Society (RMBF).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Sir Percy WG Sargent (1879 - 1933) (English) ( Memento from January 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Obituary: SIR PERCY SARGENT, CMG, DSO, MB, FRCS In: British Medical Journal. 1933 January 28; 1 (3760), pp. 167-169 ( PMC 2367815 (free full text)).
  3. ↑ The Medical's Who's Who. 1914.
  4. ^ Percy William Sargent at ancestry.com, accessed February 19, 2013
  5. ↑ Origins of the Society of British Neurological Surgeons 1926-1939 ( PowerPoint presentation, 3.06 MB, English).

literature

  • Obituary: SIR PERCY SARGENT, CMG, DSO, MB, FRCS In: British Medical Journal. 1933 January 28; 1 (3760), pp. 167-169 ( PMC 2367815 (free full text)).
personal data
SURNAME Sargent, Percy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sargent, Percy William George (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British neurosurgeon
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Bristol or Chester , Cheshire
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1933
Place of death London