Prof John Campbell Nicholson
15/07/1905 to 04/03/1988
Place of birth: Belfast, Northern Ireland
Nationality: British
CRN: 715538
Professor from 1963
Education and qualifications
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General education |
Altrincham Grammar School; University of Manchester |
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Primary medical qualification(s) |
MBChB, Manchester, 1930 |
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Initial Fellowship and type |
FFARCS by Election |
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Year of Fellowship |
1950 |
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Other qualification(s) |
DA(RCP&S), 1935 |
Professional life and career
Postgraduate career
Held house appointments in both medicine & surgery at Manchester’s Royal Infirmary & St Mary’s Hospital before training in anaesthesia at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading (1932-3). He then spent a year as a demonstrator in human physiology at Manchester University before setting up in private practice with visiting anaesthetist posts at Manchester’s Ancoats, Northern & Dental Hospitals and Booth Hall Infirmary for Children. During WW2 he served (1939-45) in North Africa, Sicily, Italy and Germany as a Major in the RAMC, returning to Manchester until 1948 when he emigrated to South Africa. Initially he was chief anaesthetist to the Johannesburg Hospitals, but in 1963 was appointed to a new chair of anaesthesia in the University of Witwatersrand, a post he held until retirement in 1970.
Professional interests and activities
More information would be welcome. He was the third professor to be appointed in South Africa, and his main academic activities seem to have been in teaching, both undergraduates and postgraduates. He organised the original DA(Wits).
Other biographical information
From a medical family (father & brother), he married Elizabeth (possibly known as Dorothy) Holland and they had two daughters. Golf was an early pastime, but in South Africa he made a collection of butterflies that was ultimately given to the Transvaal Museum.
Author and Sources
Author: Prof Tony Wildsmith
Sources and any other comments: Boulton form | Ancestry.co.uk where a photograph may be found on the link below | Pharboo NB. MD Thesis (The Department of Anaesthesia, UCT, 1920-2000. A History), University of Cape Town, 2002.