Dr Edward Ivan Tate
Personal Details
Dr Edward Ivan Tate MB BS FFARCS DA
11/04/1916 to 1997
Place of birth: Stamfordham, Northumberland
Nationality: British
CRN: 519238
Education and qualifications
| General education | Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne 1930-33, winning a Kitchener Scholarship. University of Durham, Medical School 1933-38. |
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| Primary medical qualification(s) | MB BS, University of Durham, 1938 |
| Initial Fellowship and type | FFARCS by Election |
| Year of Fellowship | 1953 |
| Other qualification(s) | DA (RCP&S), 1946 |
Professional life and career
Postgraduate career
After graduation Tate undertook a House Surgeon Post at the Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI) in Newcastle for 1938-39.
Following this he entered war service with the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve as a Surgeon Lieutentant from 1939 until 1946, achieving the rank of Lieutenant Commander. After the war he returned to the RVI, where from 1946 to 1952 he undertook his anaesthetic training, first as a registrar then senior registrar. He was appointed as a consultant anaesthetist to the RVI in 1953, remaining in Newcastle until his retirement in 1980.
Professional interests and activities
He was a member of the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland. Alongside his career as a consultant anaesthetist Dr Tate had an interest in intractable pain work, and developed the Newcastle Multidisciplinary Pain Clinic with a colleague, John Warburton Thompson.
Other biographical information
Dr Tate’s father Edward was a doctor who specialised in anaesthesia, and his mother was a nurse. He was one of two siblings with a sister Marion. In 1942 he married Joan Beatrice Doughty; together they had one child, a son Michael born in 1944. Dr Tate’s interests outside of medicine were golf, fishing, skiing, swimming, bridge and languages. He visited several countries .
In 1982 after retirement he moved to Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada with his wife Joan, who died the following year. He married a second time in 1986 to a lady called Teresa Guri who taught Spanish and French. Dr Tate passed away in 1997 and is buried next to his wife Joan at Capalino View Cemetery in Vancouver.
Author and sources
Author:
Dr Innes Simon Chadwick
Sources and comments:
Dr Tate’s self submitted autobiographical Royal College “Boulton form” dated 1988.
Biographical and family information accessed on line via Ancestry.com.
The Medical Registers GMC accessed on line via Ancestry.com.
The Medical Directory. Churchill Ltd. London 1968 Vol2 p.2359 (E I Tate).
Thompson G. Obituary John Warburton Thompson. BMJ 2013; 347: f6439.