Lancelot Barrington-Ward
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Lancelot Edward Barrington-Ward
Early life and education
Barrington-Ward was born in Worcester, the second son of Mark Barrington-Ward and his wife Caroline (née Pearson).
Rugby union career
In the season 1907-08 he captained a successful Edinburgh University team that competed at the highest levels of British rugby.
Surgical career
After resident hospital posts in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and at the Middlesex Hospital, London, he passed the examination to become a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1910 and two years later gained the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. In 1913 he proceeded to the ChM of Edinburgh University with honours and with the award of the Chiene Medal in Surgery.[2]
In 1910 he became house surgeon at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London, and this was the start of an association with that institution that lasted for the rest of his career. After this he was appointed resident medical superintendent at the hospital, which gave him experience with all aspects of hospital administration.[5] He was appointed assistant surgeon at Great Ormond Street in December 1914. At the start of World War I he volunteered for duty as Surgeon-in-Chief to Lady Wimborne's Hospital at Uskub (now Skopje) in Serbia. For his distinguished services in this capacity he was awarded the Serbian Order of St. Sava. Later he worked as a surgeon in British military hospitals.[2]
Returning to London in 1918, he went on to establish a reputation as a paediatric surgeon. In 1919 he was appointed surgeon to the Royal Northern Hospital, Holloway Road, London, and this enabled him also to build a substantial adult practice. For 38 years he was surgeon to the Woodgreen and Southgate Hospital and for 18 of these was senior surgeon.[6]
During the 1920s and 1930s he achieved international recognition in the field of paediatric surgery, and his book The Abdominal Surgery of Children (1928) became a standard didactic text. He also made contributions to adult abdominal surgery, many of which were embodied in the chapters he wrote for the textbook Royal Northern Operative Surgery (1939), the first two editions of which he edited.[2]
In the course of his professional career he operated on members of the Royal Family.[7]
Family
All of his four brothers were
Lancelot Barrington-Ward married Dorothy Miles in 1917 and they had three daughters. After her death in 1935 he married Catherine Reuter, with whom he had one son.[2]
Honours and awards
In 1935 he was made a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) and in the following year was appointed Surgeon to the Household of HRH The Duke of York who, as Prince Albert, had been his patient eighteen years previously. When the Duke became King George VI, Barrington-Ward became Surgeon to the Royal Household and in 1952, after his retirement from active surgical practice, he was appointed by Queen Elizabeth II as extra-Surgeon to her Household. Having attended the sister of King George V, Queen Maud of Norway, he was awarded the Grand Cross of St Olav.[2]
He was president of the Section of Children's Diseases of the
Death and legacy
He died on 17 November 1953 at his home in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, some months after a major operation in Leeds General Infirmary.[5]
References
- ^ England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J9WP-XRQ : 10 February 2018, Lancelot Edward Barrington-Ward, ); citing item 9 p 84
- ^ a b c d e f "Barrington-Ward, Sir Lancelot Edward (1884 - 1953)". livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 8 June 2019. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-9503620-9-0.
- ^ "Lancelot Edward Barrington-Ward". ESPN scrum. Archived from the original on 7 July 2013. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
- ^ PMID 13106390.
- PMID 13106408.
- ^ a b Obituary. Sir Lancelot Barrington-Ward. The Times 18 November 1953, p 11