Dr David Justin Davies

Personal Details

Dr David Justin Davies MB BS FFARCS MRCS LRCP DA

Known As: Justin

26/07/1897 - 07/09/1958

Place of birth: Merthyr Tydfil, Wales

Nationality: British

Post nominals: MB BS FFARCS MRCS LRCP DA

CRN: 723516

 

General education	University Colleges of Aberystwyth and Cardiff followed by medical school at the Middlesex Hospital, London.
Primary medical qualification(s)	MRCS England, LRCP London., 1920 MB BS, University of London, 1924
Initial Fellowship and type	FFARCS by Election
Year of Fellowship	1953
Other qualification(s)	DA (RCP&S), 1935

 

Professional life and career

Postgraduate career

After graduation Davies undertook house jobs at the Middlesex Hospital, followed by Assistant Medical Officer at the North-East Hospital, Metropolitan Asylums Board, London. In 1925 he worked as a house surgeon at the Royal Infirmary, Leicester before setting up in general practice with his wife in that city. In the early 1930s he was Surgeon for Leicester Co. Police, took medical referrals for Commercial Union and other Assurance Companies, and was a Captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC), T.A. Becoming interested in anaesthetics, he was appointed by 1934 visiting anaesthetist to the Royal Infirmary and City General Hospital in Leicester. Having been promoted to Major (1934) followed by Lt. Col. in the Territorial RAMC, he commanded a C.C.S. which went to France in 1939, but he was invalided out of the Service after the Dunkirk evacuation. He continued to work in the Leicester group of hospitals, where he was appointed Consultant Anaesthetist in the early 1950s – until his sudden death in 1958.   

Professional interests and activities

He was a member of the Royal Society of Medicine, the Leicester Medical Society (Vice President), and the Sheffield and East Midland Society of Anaesthetists (President). Highly regarded for his clinical expertise, he enjoyed extensive hospital and private practice. 

Other biographical information

He married Dr Lucy Simpson in 1925 and they had a daughter, who also became a medical doctor. According to his obituary, he had a most likeable personality and had a wide circle of friends. An elder of the Presbyterian Church in Leicester, he enjoyed golf, which he continued to play despite failing health. At the age of 61 while playing golf in Leicester he had a fatal collapse – predeceased by his wife but survived by his daughter. 

Author and Sources

Author

Alistair McKenzie

 

Sources and Comments For material which does not fit other categories

[1] Obituary D. Justin Davies, MB, BS, FFARCS. BMJ 1958; II: 803. 

[2] Medical Registers and Directories. 

[3] ancestry.co.uk