Andrew Wood Wilkinson
Andrew Wood Wilkinson | |
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CBE | |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Pediatrics |
Institutions | Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh Aberdeen Royal Infirmary Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital University of London Great Ormond Street Hospital |
Andrew Wood Wilkinson CBE (born 19 April 1914 in Taunton, died 18 August 1995 in Castle Douglas, Kirkcudbrightshire) was a British paediatrician of Scottish extraction and the first Professor of Paediatric Surgery in the UK.[1][2]
Life
Wilkinson took his early primary education at his local school, before being sent to
MB, ChB with first class honours in 1937[2] and winning the Pattison prize in clinical surgery.[3] Wilkinson remained in Edinburgh until 1949, taking several surgical posts, including a position at Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh. In 1940 he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Fellowship of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons.[2]
Career
During
tutor at the University of Edinburgh, then later a position as lecturer in surgery.[2] In 1953, Wilkinson moved to Aberdeen, where he held the dual position of senior lecturer and junior surgeon, at both the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary and the Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital.[1] It was while working in Aberdeen in 1955, that Wilkinson's seminal work, Body Fluids in Surgery, was first published.[2] In 1957 he was elected a member of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh.[4] In 1958, Wilkinson was appointed Nuffield professor of paediatric surgery at the Institute of Child Health at the University of London and as a surgeon working at Great Ormond Street Hospital.[1] On retiral in 1979, he was made professor emeritus professor.[1] In 1979, Wilkinson retired and went to live close to the Solway Firth. He began to lose his sight in his later years.[2]
In 1941, Wilkinson married Joan Sharp, an artist and potter, in Edinburgh. They had two daughters, Jane and Caroline, and two sons, Angus and Peter.[2]
Awards and honours
- Hunterian Professor, Royal College of Surgeons in 1965.[1]
- Wilkison was President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh between 1976 and 1979.[1]
- Wilkinson was appointed a CBE in 1979.[2]
Bibliography
- Body Fluids in Surgery by A.W. Wilkinson., Edinburgh; London: E. & S. Livingstone, 1955.
References
- ^ a b c d e f g Dean, Alan C. B.; Lister, James (6 October 1995). "OBITUARY: Professor Andrew Wilkinson". The Independent. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online". Wilkinson, Andrew Wood. The Royal College of Surgeons of England. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
- ^ "Wilkinson, Professor Andrew". Welcome Collection. London. Retrieved 2 June 2022.
- ^ Minute Books of the Harveian Society. Library of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.