Dr John Charles Buckley
30/06/1907 to 11/01/1993
Place of birth: Nottingham
Nationality: British
CRN: 495196
Education and qualifications
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General education |
Eastbourne College; Peterhouse College, Cambridge; St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School |
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Primary medical qualification(s) |
MBBCh, Cantab, 1934 |
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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) |
BA, Cantab, 1929; MRCS LRCP, 1934; DA(RCP&S), 1937 |
Professional life and career
Postgraduate career
Early PG appointments were as casualty officer & house surgeon, Royal Victoria & West Hants Hospital, Bournemouth and house physician, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge. He was then house anaesthetist at both Westminster (1936-7) and Golden Square ENT Hospitals (1938-9) before appointment as honorary anaesthetist to Woolwich Memorial, Princess Beatrice & Italian Hospitals, and anaesthetist at Golden Square. During WW2 he served (1940-45) in Malta, Palestine & France as a Major in the RAMC, returning thereafter to his home town, Nottingham, as honorary anaesthetist to the General, Children’s and Women’s Hospitals. He became a consultant after the inception of the NHS, and subsequently also worked at the local thoracic unit. He retired from these appointments in 1972, but worked part-time at the out-patient unit at the City Hospital for another five years.
Professional interests and activities
Active in both Nottingham’s Medico-Chirurgical Society (president, 1969-70) and the TA (TD, 1969). Honoured to have worked with Magill at the Westminster where his predecessor was Dr Ruth Mansfield and successor Dr (later Sir) Geoffrey Organe.
Other biographical information
From a medical family (father & uncle) he married Edith Phyllis Drakeford, and they had three children one, Richard, a consultant orthopaedic surgeon. His main recreation was gardening. For the Church of England he was a Church Warden (1946-8) and later a Member of the General Synod (1970-5).
Author and sources
Author: Prof Tony Wildsmith
Sources and any other comments: Boulton Form | Medical Directory | Mr Richard Buckley (son) | Nottingham Medico-Chirurgical Society which kindly provided the photograph