Dr Jean Mary Horton
28/10/1924 to 21/10/2021
Place of birth: Weymouth, Dorset
Nationality: British
CRN: 504683
Education and qualifications
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General education |
Queenswood School 1934-1943 (Head Girl); University College London (Pre clinical); West London Hospital Medical School (Clinical) 1945-1948 |
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Primary medical qualification(s) |
MRCS LRCP, 1948 |
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Initial Fellowship and type |
FFARCS Fellow by Examination |
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Year of Fellowship |
1958 |
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Other qualification(s) |
MBBS(Lond) 1949; DA(Eng) 1953; MA (Cambridge) 1977; Fellow Hong Kong College of Anaesthesiologists (FHKCA) 1992; Fellow Hong Kong Academy of Medicine (FHKAM Anaesthesiology) 1993 |
Professional life and career
Postgraduate career
House Surgeon, West London Hospital, September 1948-March 1949
House Physician, Leicester General Hospital, June 1949-April 1950
Casualty Officer, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, April 1950- October 1950
Resident Anaesthetist (House Officer), Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, October 1950-October 1951
Resident Anaesthetist (Senior House Officer), Plastic and Jaw Injuries Unit, Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, November 1951-November 1952
Resident Anaesthetist (Senior House Officer), The Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London, November 1952-1953
Anaesthetic Registrar, The London Hospital, March 1954-Feb 1956
Assistant Anaesthetist (Senior Hospital Medical Officer), Burns, Plastic and Jaw Injuries Unit, Welsh Regional Hospital Board at St Lawrence Hospital, Chepstow, and the Chest Unit, Mount Pleasant Hospital, Chepstow, February 1956-December 1958
Senior Anaesthetic Registrar, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, December 1958-April 1960
Consultant Anaesthetist, Department of Surgical Neurology, Royal Infirmary and Western General Hospital, Edinburgh; Hon Clinical Teacher, Edinburgh University, April 1960-August 1970
Visiting Senior Lecturer, Department of Anaesthesia, Lagos University, Nigeria, September 1968-November 1969
Consultant Anaesthetist, with responsibility for anaesthetic services to the Department of Neurological Surgery; Associate Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine, Cambridge University, August 1970-September 1983
Senior Lecturer, Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Chinese University of Hong Kong and Consultant Anaesthetist, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong, September 1983-November 1989
Fellow, Chung Chi College, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1989
Emeritus Consultant Anaesthetist, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge 1989-2015
Professional interests and activities
Fellow RCoA and member of RCoA Senior Fellows Club
Royal Society of Medicine, Fellow since 1951, Member Section of Anaesthetics, Council Member 1977-1980, Member Retired Fellows Society RSM
AAGBI, Hon Member 1996, Hon Secretary 1980-1982, Vice President 1985-1987
BMA member
History of Anaesthesia Society member, President 1998-2000
Hong Kong College of Anaesthesiologists, Foundation Fellow
Neurosurgical Anaesthetists' Travelling Club (NATC) which became Neuroanaesthesia Society of Great Britain and Ireland (NASGBI)
Other biographical information
History of Anaesthesia and History of Medicine
Learning languages: Cantonese, French, Spanish (A level in 2004) and continued with conversation classes; computer literacy.
Queenswood School and Old Queenswoodians' Association (OQA) (Chairman OQA 1990-1995)
Family history and genealogy; Certificate in Scottish Family History Studies (CSFH) from University of Stirling 1997
Author and sources
Author: Dr Jean Mary Horton
Sources: Heads for Medicine Vol 1 Autobiography Vol 2 Collected Papers 1960-2012. Vol 3. Family History
Photo by kind permission of Caroline Worth, cousin of Jean Horton