Norman Blacklock
Sir Norman James Blacklock Extra Gentleman Usher in 1993.
Blacklock was born in
, treating trauma cases.He returned to medicine in 1954, working as a surgical registrar and lecturer in surgery at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, and then at hospitals in Ipswich and London from 1956. He married Marjorie Reid in 1956, and they had one daughter (Fiona) and one son (Neil) together, both of whom became doctors.
He rejoined the Royal Navy in 1958 to help fill a shortage of surgeons, and served at Navy hospitals in
, founding a new department.He was appointed the director of surgical research in the Royal Navy in 1974, when he was also appointed
Extra Gentleman Usher in 1993, after his last royal tour to Hungary. In 1990, Blacklock was awarded the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal.[2]
After retiring from the Royal Navy in 1978, with the rank of
kidney stones
. He published over 80 academic papers and contributed to numerous textbooks. He gave up his chair in 1992.
He died on the afternoon of his 50th wedding anniversary after a fall on a staircase in Portsmouth.
References
- ISBN 978-0-563-36008-7. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
... So a special word of thanks is due to the Medical Officer who, in most of my time reporting royal tours, travelled abroad with The Queen and who was always kind to correspondents and cameramen in need: the then Surgeon-Captain Norman Blacklock.
- ISBN 0-908578-34-2.
- Obituary, The Times, 15 September 2006
- Obituary, The Independent, 28 September 2006
- Biography in Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online