1. Lancelot Edward Barrington-Ward KCVO, FRCS, FRCSEd was a British surgeon who won four rugby union international caps for England shortly after graduating in medicine at the University of Edinburgh.
10 Facts About Lancelot Barrington-Ward
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Lancelot Barrington-Ward worked as a paediatric surgeon at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London, and as a general surgeon at the Royal Northern Hospital, London.
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Lancelot Barrington-Ward was appointed surgeon to the Royal Household by King George VI and was made a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1935.
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Lancelot Barrington-Ward's father was an inspector of schools but in later life was ordained as an Anglican clergyman, becoming rector of Duloe in Cornwall.
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Lancelot Barrington-Ward then decided on a career in medicine and enrolled in the medical faculty of the University of Edinburgh, from which he graduated MB ChB with honours in 1908.
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Lancelot Barrington-Ward was appointed assistant surgeon at Great Ormond Street in December 1914.
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Lancelot Barrington-Ward made contributions to adult abdominal surgery, many of which were embodied in the chapters he wrote for the textbook Royal Northern Operative Surgery, the first two editions of which he edited.
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Lancelot Barrington-Ward married Dorothy Miles in 1917 and they had three daughters.
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Lancelot Barrington-Ward was president of the Section of Children's Diseases of the Royal Society of Medicine and Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons of England barely a year before he died.
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Lancelot Barrington-Ward died on 17 November 1953 at his home in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, some months after a major operation in Leeds General Infirmary.