Dr Cecil Hugh Myddleton Hughes
Personal Details
Dr Cecil Hugh Myddleton Hughes OBE MBBS FFARCS MRCS LRCP
27/08/1879 to 02/05/1960
Place of birth: Kensington, London
Nationality: British
CRN: 715249
Education and qualifications
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General education |
Westminster School; Westminster Hospital Medical School, breaking his studies in 1900 to serve as a Surgeon Dresser at the Imperial Yeomanry (a volunteer unit) Field Hospital during the Boer War. |
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Primary medical qualification(s) |
MRCS LRCP 1903 |
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Initial Fellowship and type |
FFARCS by Election |
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Year of Fellowship |
1948 |
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Other qualification(s) |
MBBS, London, 1905 |
Professional life and career
Postgraduate career
After resident posts (including house surgeon and house officer in obstetrics) at the Westminster Hughes worked as administrator of anaesthetics there until 1913 when he joined the honorary staff of King’s College Hospital as assistant anaesthetist. During WW1 he served in the Royal Navy as a consultant anaesthetist with the temporary rank of Surgeon-Commander, working at the Royal Naval Hospital, Chatham and being appointed OBE. In 1921 he became senior anaesthetist and lecturer in anaesthetics at King’s, also working at the Seaman’s (Greenwich), Samaritan Free, National Dental and Bethlem Royal Hospitals. He retired (early) in 1936, but returned to work at the Leatherhead Emergency Hospital during WW2.
Professional interests and activities
Averse to the standard technique of the time (deep ether) Hughes was an ‘artist’ in the use of light planes of anaesthesia, using a spinal if abdominal relaxation was required. He was a good teacher, insisting on an exact knowledge of the signs of anaesthesia, and contributed to the organisations of the specialty: Section of anaesthetics, RSM – secretary (1913-15, undertaking much of the work to establish the Hickman Medal), president (1928-9); AAGBI: member of the founding committee and first Council (1932-4).
Other biographical information
The son of John Myddleton Hughes FRCS, he married relatively late in life and had no children.
Author and sources
Author: Prof Tony Wildsmith
Sources and any other comments: Obituary. Anaesthesia 1960; 15: 441-2 Thanks to the Archives of Westminster School for additional information