Dr John Augustus Waring Robinson
Personal Details
Dr John Augustus Waring Robinson LMSSA MB BS FFARCS DA
10/1889 to 13/02/1968
Place of birth: Canterbury, Kent, England
Nationality: British
CRN: 723965
Education and qualifications
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General education |
Initial schools unknown. |
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Primary medical qualification(s) |
LMSSA, (Society of Apothecaries) London, 1915. |
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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), 1938 |
Professional life and career
Postgraduate career
Following qualification in 1915 he undertook initial house officer posts in surgery and medicine at King’s College Hospital. He was also a clinical assistant in the children’s out patient department at King’s College Hospital. Following these House Officer posts with the advent of World War 1, he joined the Royal Navy as a Temporary Surgeon Lieutenant in November 1915. He served on HMS Onyx, HMS Princess East Africa, HMS Himalaya with the Cape of Good Hope patrol service.
Following his military service he entered into the joint family practice with his two brothers and father in Peckham and Dulwich in London. Alongside he was an assistant anaesthetist at the South East Children’s Hospital and anaesthetist to the London County Council Schools Dental Clinic. He also held an appointment as a District Medical Officer. His interests in anaesthesia continued with an attachment at the Horton Emergency Hospital in Epsom in 1939 according to the census register. By 1939 he held an appointment as Assistant Anaesthetist at the National Temperance Hospital in Hampstead Road. Age will have precluded him from active military sevice during WW2.
With the advent of the National Health Service he became a consultant at the National Temperance Hospital. He also delivered anaesthetic services at the Sydenham Hospital for Children, Belmont Hospital in Sutton, and Cane Hill Hospital, Coulsdon. He retired in 1954 when he reached the age of 65 years.
Professional interests and activities
He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine.
Other biographical information
The son of a physician, John and two of his brothers also entered the medical profession. John was first married to Henrietta Woolven in 1918, and they had two sons: David and Beverley. Henrietta died in 1922 (aged 35) and John then married in 1923 her sister Mary, and she delivered their son Waring in 1925. Dr Robinson passed away in Cornwall aged 78 years. He was predeceased by David, Waring and Mary, but survived by his remaining son Beverley and two of his brothers.
Author and sources
Author:
Dr Innes Simon Chadwick
Sources and comments:
Biographic information sourced Ancestry.com and FindmyPast accessed on line.
Medical Registers and Medical Directories accessed on line at Ancestry.com
Medical Directories 1943-55 accessed at University of Edinburgh Library by Dr A.G. McKenzie.
1921 Census and 1939 Census register accessed at FindmyPast.
Newspaper articles accessed at FindmyPast and newspaper archives.