Dr Theodore Herzl Chadwick
Personal Details
Dr Theodore Herzl Chadwick MBChB FFARCS DA
08/11/1905 to 11/12/1987
Place of birth: Prestwich, Manchester, England
Nationality: British
CRN: 562322
Education and qualifications
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General education |
Attended The Jewish Junior School in North Manchester; his senior school education is not known. |
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Primary medical qualification(s) |
MB ChB, Manchester Victoria University Medical School, 1929 |
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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), 1935 |
Professional life and career
Postgraduate career
Limited information has been revealed about Theodore Chadwick’s career.
It is not clear where he undertook his further training after medical school. The 1939 Census Register records him as a medical practitioner for the Emergency Hospital Medical Service. Various records confirm his residence around Manchester after 1929.
In January 1940 he was commissioned as Lieutenant RAMC for war service, but no further information is available about war service.
Theodore’s older brother William was also a doctor who practised as a GP in Manchester. In the early 1940s they shared the same address: 148 Oldham Road. William later became Mayor of Manchester for a period of time.
Per the Medical Directories, in 1947 Theodore was Senior Hon. Anaesthetist to the Victoria Memorial Jewish Hospital, visiting anaesthetist at the Salford Royal Hospital and Ashton-u-Lyne Hospital. By the following year he was also visiting anaesthetist at Withington Hospital and Manchester Jewish Hospital. By 1952 he was appointed a Consultant Anaesthetist and Adviser to the North Manchester Group of Hospitals. He seems to have continued working in this post until his seventies.
Professional interests and activities
As Honorary Anaesthetist at the Manchester Jewish Hospital he published in 1936 ‘Evipan sodium in treatment of ether convulsions’ (BMJ; I: 1252). In 1949 he published with Mark Swerdlow on 100 consecutive cases of ‘Thiopentone-curare in abdominal surgery’ (Anaesthesia; 4: 76-78).
He was a Member of the Association of Anaesthetists and a Fellow of the Manchester Medical Society.
Other biographical information
His parents were both born in Russia / Poland. Speculate Chadwick is an anglicised name that father Gabriel converted to on arrival in England. Father Gabriel was a tailor based in North Manchester. Historically there was a well established Jewish immigrant population in this area of the conurbation.
Theodore married Thelma Rebecca Diamond in 1940. She is listed as a civil servant for the railways in the 1939 census register.
Theodore passed away in 1987 in South Mancheser aged 82 years. He was survived by his wife, who died in 2008. Possibly they had three sons, but this is not reliably confirmed.
Author and sources
Author:
Dr Innes Simon Chadwick
Sources and comments:
Medical Registers 1929-40 accessed on line via Ancestry.com
Medical Directory 1940 accessed on line via Ancestry.com.
Medical Directories 1930-1980 accessed by Dr A. McKenzie at Edinburgh University Library.
Biographical information accessed on line via Ancestry.com
London Gazette Military Notices. Supplement 19 March 1940 p1623
Archives Manchester Medical Society.
Theodore Herzl Chadwick. Manchester Medical Collection: Biographical Files A-G. University of Manchester Library. GB 133 MMC/2/CHADWICKT