Dr Humphrey Bowstead Wilson
Personal details
Dr Humphrey Bowstead Wilson OBE MA MBBCh FFARCS MRCS LRCP DA
01/11/1883 to 01/01/1962
Place of birth: Knightwick, Worcestershire
Nationality: British
CRN: 715283
Education and qualifications
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General education |
Charterhouse School; Pembroke College, Cambridge; St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School |
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Primary medical qualification(s) |
MRCS LRCP, 1909 |
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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) |
BA, Cambridge, 1905 (MA, 1910); MBBChir, Cambridge, 1910 |
Professional life and career
Postgraduate career
Wilson was house physician and both house officer & SHO obstetrics at St Thomas’s before working as an assistant in the bacteriology laboratory. However, by 1914 he was anaesthetist at Great Ormond Street & the Royal Ear Hospitals, then spending WW1 in the RAMC (see below). In 1920 he returned to Great Ormond Street and was also anaesthetist at St Thomas’s Hospital. These appointments continued until 1940 when he was senior anaesthetists at St Thomas’s only. He seems to have retired sometime around 1942-3.
Professional interests and activities
Awarded the DA(RCP&S) without examination (1936), he served two terms on the AAGBI Council (1947-8 & 1954-7), but nothing else has been found – there was only a death notice in the BMJ.
Other biographical information
A freemason from his student days, he was gazetted OBE as Major RAMC on 01/01/1919, having served with 5th Casualty Clearing Station in WW1.
Author and Sources
Author: Prof Tony Wildsmith
Sources and any other comments: Medical Directories | www.ancestry.co.uk | Mrs Elizabeth Mills OBE DSc(Hon), family historian