Dr Nancie Isabel Faux
Personal Details
Dr Nancie Isabel Faux MBBS FFARCS DA DPH
09/04/1909 to 06/01/1990
Place of birth: Kingston-upon-Thames
Nationality: British
CRN: 558503
Education and qualifications
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General education |
Tiffin’s School for Girls, Kingston. |
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Primary medical qualification(s) |
MBBS, Royal Free Medical School for Women London, 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) |
DA (RCP&S),1940 |
Professional life and career
Postgraduate career
Houseman at Haslemere Hospital Surrey.
Casualty Officer Willesdaen Hospital.
Resident Anaesthetist Queen Charlotte’s Hospital for three years.
Further anaesthesia posts in Hull, Fulham and Bow.
1942 Consultant Anaesthetist North Middlesex Hospital, Edmonton, London (Senior Anaesthetist by 1945).
1942 six months as Assistant Anaesthetist at Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford to study chest diseases.
1951-1970 Consultant Anaesthetist Clwyd and Deeside Area.
1970-1980 Multiple locum posts in Clwyd.
Professional interests and activities
Member Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland.
Member of Society of Anaesthetists of Wales (elected first female President of that Society in 1967).
Other biographical information
Homemaker and mother to two daughters and two sons. Married to the surgeon Ivor Lewis. Gourmet cook, skilled embroiderer (member of local Embroider’s Guild). Fond of arts, music and literature. Member of the Council for the Preservation of Rural Wales. Member of local Historical Society. Volunteer with League of Friends of Glan Clywd District Hospital 1980 - 85.
Died in Reigate, Surrey (where one of her sons lived) in 1990.
Author and sources
Author:
Dr David Wilkinson
Sources and comments:
[1] Owen B. “Following our own nature”. Caernarvon: Gwasg y Bwthyn, 2010; 46-51.
[2] Medical Directories.
[3] ancestry.co.uk