Dr Alan Blakey Ward

Personal Details

Dr Alan Blakey Ward MB BS FFARCS DA

26/01/1921 - 27/06/2005

Place of birth: Sunderland, England

Nationality: British

CRN: 521189

 

 

General education	Bede School, Sunderland 1933-37 Technical College, Sunderland 1937-38 Medical School at King’s College, Newcastle on Tyne 1938-42.
Primary medical qualification(s)	MB BS, University of Durham, 1942
Initial Fellowship and type	FFARCS by Election
Year of Fellowship	1953
Other qualification(s)	DA (RCP&S), 1950

 

Professional life and career

Postgraduate career

After qualifying Ward undertook house jobs at Sunderland General Hospital. In 1943 he joined the Royal Air Force Voluntary Reserve as a Flight Lieut., serving in India, Burma and Egypt. After demobilisation in 1947 he returned to be a house surgeon and resident anaesthetist at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead. Through 1948 to 1952 he advanced from Registrar to Senior Registrar at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle. In 1952 he was appointed Consultant Anaesthetist at West Cumberland Hospital in Whitehaven where he remained until his retirement in 1985.  

Professional interests and activities

He was a member of the British Medical Association and the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland. While still a registrar, he was co-author with Davison and Pask of a paper on Myanesin in the treatment of tetanus. He developed an interest in respiratory failure and from the 1960s he was the consultant in charge of the Intensive Treatment Unit. In the 1970s he took charge of administration of the Department of Anaesthetics in Whitehaven.  

Other biographical information

He married Irene Matthews in 1945 and they had a son and a daughter. His leisure pursuits included wireless, model aircraft, electronics, gardening and walking in the Lake District. He died at the age of 84 years. 

Author and Sources

Author

Alistair McKenzie

 

Sources and Comments For material which does not fit other categories

[1] Dr Ward’s self submitted biographical “Boulton form” dated 1988. 

[2] Medical Registers and Directories. 

[3] ancestry.co.uk