Dr Douglas Steele Young
Personal Details
Dr Douglas Steele Young MB ChB FFARCS DA
30/09/1915 to 08/02/1986
Place of birth: Manchester, United Kingdom
Nationality: British
CRN: 560959
Education and qualifications
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General education |
Medical School, University of Leeds 1933-39 |
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Primary medical qualification(s) |
MB ChB, University of Leeds, 1939 |
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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) |
DA (RCP&S), 1946 |
Professional life and career
Postgraduate career
On qualifying Young undertook an Orthopaedic Surgical House Officer Post at the Leeds General Infirmary. He was commissioned as a Flight Lieutentant in the RAFVR in April 1940 for war service (Medical Branch). At the end in 1946 he was based at Wellingborough, Northamptonshire.
Following demobilisation, he undertook posts as a senior resident anaesthetist, and anaesthetic registrar at the Leeds General Infrmary. By 1949 he was Anaesthetist in the Thoracic Surgical Department there. In 1953 he was appointed a Consultant Anaesthetist in the same Thoracic Department. Later his appointment came under ‘United Leeds Hospitals’ and he was additionally a Senior Clinical Lecturer in Anaesthesia at Leeds University and the Leeds Dental Hospital. He retired in about 1968, aged approximately 53 years.
Professional interests and activities
He was a member of the Thoracic Society and fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. In 1964 he co-authored, with JG Whitwam, a series of three papers about the use of the new barbiturate induction agent methohexitone for dental anaesthesia in 2000 patients.
Other biographical information
Douglas Young married Winifred Maude Bates, nee Elliot, in 1941; her first husband had passed away in 1940 at the age of 45. Winfred was aged 37 at the time of her second marriage and Dr Young was then 26years. They don’t appear to have had any children of their own; however Winifred had two boys Bryan (b.1929)and Roger (b.1931) from her first marriage who presumably became his stepsons. Winifred also had an earlier daughter who sadly died aged 8 years. A newspaper report of the wedding at Wellingborough describes Douglas as a Flt. Lt. and the only son of Dr John Young and the late Mrs Young (who died in 1940).
He had an interest in archery and competed at the World Archery Championship Copenhagen 1950.
Following retirement Douglas appears to have moved in about 1969 to the Isle of Man, where he lived until he passed away in a nursing home in 1986.
Author and sources
Author:
Dr Innes Simon Chadwick
Sources and comments:
Bibliographic and Family information obtained from sources accessed online at Ancestry.com and FindmyPast.com.
Newspaper articles accessed via FindmyPast and newspaper archives.
Medical Registers and Directories accessed on line at Ancestry.com
Medical Directories 1940 – 1975 accessed at Edinburgh University Library by Dr A.G. McKenzie.
Observations on Dental Anaesthesia Introduced with Methohexitone. I Induction of Anaesthesia. Young DS, Whitwam JG. Brit. J. Anaesth. 1964, 36; 31-38.
Observations on Dental Anaesthesia Introduced with Methohexitone. II Maintenence and Recovery. Young DS, Whitwam JG. Brit. J. Anaesth. 1964, 36; 94-99.
Observations on Dental anaesthesia introduced with Methohexitone. III Blood pressure Changes. Whitwam JG, Young DS. Brit. J. Anaesth. 1964, 36; 237-43.