Dr Michael Henry Warner Holloway
Personal Details
Dr Michael Henry Warner Holloway MRCS FFARCS DA
15/07/1913 to 11/1997
Place of Birth: Stroud, Gloucester
Nationality: British
CRN: 504528
Education and qualifications
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General education |
Clifton College, Bristol 1927-30, after which he spent time in Compiegne, France. |
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Primary medical qualification(s) |
MRCS (Eng.) LRCP (Lond.), 1941 |
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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
Holloway undertook his initial career in 1941 as a House Officer and Resident Anaesthetist at the War Hospital, Woking, Surrey. In 1942 he was appointed as Surgeon Lt. in the RNVR, rising to the rank of Surgeon Lt. Cdr. by 1946 when he was demobilised. He continued his anaesthetic training as a registrar in Anaesthesia at St Thomas’s Hospital between 1946 and 1948. He additionally had a short secondment to the Belgrave Hospital for children.
First appointed as a Consultant Anaesthetist at Poplar Hospital, London in 1948, he also undertook appointments at the West Ham Schools Dental Clinics and the National Temperance Hospital in London. In 1967 he was appointed as a Consultant Anaesthetist at University College Hospital, London, a post he continued until 1974.
Following this he undertook a post as a “temporary consultant” at Cirencester Memorial Hospital from 1974 until 1978, when he had reached the usual retirement age of 65 years.
Professional interests and activities
Whilst at Poplar Hospital, Michael was chair of the hospital’s medical council between 1950 and 1958.
Other biographical information
Michael was the son of a clothing manufacturer and director in Stroud. Outside of medicine he had strong musical interests. He was chair of the London Medical Orchestra between 1967 and 1973, and chair of the Cotswold Players Amateur Dramatic Society for 1978-81. In his fifties he developed interests in photography and golf. He visited many countries and was apparently reasonably fluent in French.
Michael married Glennis Montague-Smith (an orthoptist) in 1943 and they had one daughter. According to his autobiographical form his son-in-law was a consultant anaesthetist, but the name was not provided. He passed away in Stroud in 1997 aged 84 years, survived by his wife and offspring. According to a death notice in the Daily Telegraph he had three grandsons.
Author and sources
Author:
Dr Innes Simon Chadwick
Sources and comments:
Self submitted autobiographical college “Boulton Form” dated 1988.
Bibliographic information accesed via Ancestry.com.
UK Medical Register 1942 accessed via Ancestry.com.
BMD notice Daily Telegraph accessed via Ancestry.com