Dr Thomas Richard Martin Bristow

Personal Details

Dr Thomas Richard Martin Bristow MA MRCS LRCP FFARCS DA

Known As: Martin 

15/11/1913 to 31/07/2007

Place of birth: Dudley, Worcestershire, England 

Nationality: British

CRN: 494676

Education and qualifications

General education	Dulwich College, London  Pembroke College, University of Cambridge 1932-35, earning a Blue for rowing (as bow in the victorious crew against Oxford)  Medical School at St Thomas's Hospital 1936-40
Primary medical qualification(s)	MRCS England., LRCP London., 1940
Initial Fellowship and type	FFARCS by Election
Year of Fellowship	1953
Other qualification(s)	MA, University of Cambridge, c. 1940  DA (RCP&S), 1942

 

Professional life and career

Postgraduate career

After qualifying Bristow undertook house jobs at St Thomas’s Hospital. In October 1942 he joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve as a Flt. Lt. By the time of demobilisation in 1947 he was a Squadron Ldr. (Anaesthetics Specialist). He then became Honorary Anaesthetist at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, and Visiting Anaesthetist to Battle Hospital, Reading. In 1950 he was appointed Consultant Anaesthetist to Reading and District Hospitals, in which post he remained until his retirement in 1979.   

Professional interests and activities

Bristow was a member of the Royal Society of Medicine. He published on outpatient laparoscopic surgery in 1976. 

Other biographical information

Bristow was a member of the British boat coxless fours team, which won a silver medal at Grunau (Berlin) during the 1936 summer Olympic games. A member of the London Rowing Club, he was in the crew which won the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley in 1938. He married Joan Frances Bibby in 1940 and they had a son, who also pursued rowing. On retirement he moved to Estepona, Spain where he died at the age of 93 years. 

Author and sources

Alistair McKenzie 

Sources and comments: 

[1] Medical Registers and Directories. 

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Martin_Bristow&oldid=1306173… (accessed May 2026). 

[3] ancestry.co.uk