George Dickinson Hadley
George Dickinson Hadley
Early life and family
George Dickinson Hadley, known as "Dicken" at home, was born on 30 June 1908, the son of Laurence Hadley, editor of the Birmingham Post.
He married Jean Stewart in 1947, who was a professional viola player, and they had three daughters who all played instruments. The composer Ralph Vaughan Williams later became a patient and confidant. Hadley inherited a library of fishing books from his father which he rebound and he was a fly-fisher himself as well as having an interest in oriental rugs.[1][2] In later life he became so proficient at book-binding that dealers sent their books to him to work on.[3]
Medical career
Hadley was house physician to Charles Lakin and house surgeon to Gordon Gordon-Taylor.[1] Between 1936 and 1938 he became an Elmore research student at Cambridge and established his lifelong interest in
At the start of the Second World War in 1939, he joined the
After the war, Hadley became resident medical officer at the Middlesex Hospital. A year later, he was appointed assistant physician, and was later chosen to be physician at the Canadian Red Cross Hospital, Taplow. He used the Hermon Taylor and Schindler instruments from 1949 and imported the first gastrocamera to Britain from Japan in 1963.[1] He went on to be a pioneer of fibreoptic endoscopy.[1] His 1967 paper with L.M. Blendis and A.J. Cameron in Gut, titled "Analysis of 400 examinations using the gastrocamera", was described by the editors as confirming "the claim that the use of the gastrocamera is a safe, simple, and easily learnt technique which has been found to be of considerable value in the diagnosis of gastric diseases."[4]
Later life
Hadley was seriously ill in his last five years and died at his home in London on 14 August 1984. He received an obituary in the British Medical Journal and is recorded in
Selected publications
- "Analysis of 400 examinations using the gastrocamera", Gut, 1967, 8, pp. 83–87. (With L.M. Blendis and A.J. Cameron)
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i George Dickinson Hadley. Munk's Roll, Royal College of Physicians. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
- ^ PMC 1443041.
- ^ a b c d "Dr George Hadley", The Times, 1 September 1984, p. 10.
- ^ L.M. Blendis, A.J. Cameron, & G.D. Hadley, "Analysis of 400 examinations using the gastrocamera", Gut, 1967, 8, pp. 83–87.
- ^ "Deaths", The Times, 16 August 1984, p. 24.