Dr Cyril Frederick Mvo Scurr
14/07/1920 to 06/07/2012
Place of birth: Hampstead, London
Nationality: UK
CRN: 516826
Education and qualifications
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General education |
Finchley Grammar School, North London Polytechnic College, Kings College London 1937-38, Westminster Hospital 1938-41 |
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Primary medical qualification(s) |
LRCP MRCS 1941; MBBS 1942 University of London |
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Initial Fellowship and type |
FFARCS by Election |
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Year of Fellowship |
1953 |
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Other qualification(s) |
BSc 1936; DA 1947; FRCS; Hon FFARCSI |
Professional life and career
Postgraduate career
09/41-06/42 House Surgeon and Casualty Officer, Westminster Hospital.
09/42-04/47 RAMC. Lt-Capt-Major (serving in Algeria, Tunisia 42-43; Italy 43-45; Greece 46-47)
1947-49 Registrar then Senior Registrar Westminster Hospital and Supernumerary Registrar at Brompton Hospital
1949-85 Consultant, Westminster Hospital
1949-59 Consultant, Preston Hall Hospital, Aylesford, Kent
1950 Consultant, Hospital of St John and Elizabeth, St John’s Wood, London
Professional interests and activities
1961-77 Board Member, Faculty Anaesthetists, RCS
1970-73 Dean, Faculty Anaesthetists, RCS
1956-59,1962-65, 1973-78 Council Member, AAGBI
1976-78 President, AAGBI
1970-72 Hon. Sec., Anaesthetic Section RSM.
1978-79 President, Anaesthetic Section of RSM
1988 Honorary Member, Anaesthetic Section of RSM
Clinical and Research interests in muscle relaxants, profound hypothermia in cardiac surgery, measurement and monitoring in anaesthesia.
He co-authored two notable books: in 1970 (with S Feldman) ‘Scientific Foundations of Anaesthesia’; in 1987 (with S Feldman and W Paton) ‘Drugs in Anaesthesia: Mechanisms of Action’. Both ran to further editions.
Other biographical information
Married Isabel Jean Spiller in 1947 and they had four children: three had careers in medicine and one became an architect.
Keen gardener and photographer. Interested in cricket, hockey and tennis.
Author and sources
Author: David Wilkinson
Sources and comments:
[1] Scurr’s own completion of ‘Boulton form’ on Lives of Fellows of Faculty.
[2] Plarr’s Lives of the Fellows completed by Aileen Adams.
[3] Obituary BMJ 2012; 2: 35.