Terence Cawthorne

Sir Terence Edward Cawthorne FRCS (29 September 1902 – 22 January 1970) was a British surgeon specialising in otorhinolaryngology (ENT) who was knighted in 1964.[1][2][3][4]

He was born in Aberdeen and educated at Denstone College in Staffordshire. He then studied at the Medical School of King's College Hospital, London, becoming first house surgeon and then in 1928 Registrar to the Ear, Nose and Throat department there.

He was appointed consultant surgeon to the ENT departments of King's College Hospital (1931–64) and Metropolitan Hospital (1930–34) and consultant ENT surgeon at the Hostel of St Luke (1932–45), St Giles' Hospital (1932-45), Royal Hospital, Richmond (1931–33), East Surrey Hospital (1934–38) and the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases (1936–67).

He delivered numerous lectures and was made an honorary member of several overseas medical societies. He was elected President of the Royal Society of Medicine for 1962–1964.

He married Lilian Southworth in 1930 and had with her a son and a daughter.

Awards

References

  1. ‘CAWTHORNE, Sir Terence (Edward)’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 4 Sept 2013
  2. Ronald Macbeth, ‘Cawthorne, Sir Terence Edward (1902–1970)’, rev. Anita McConnell, first published 2004, 743 words doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/3233
  3. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1288/00005537-197004000-00012/abstract
  4. "Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online - Cawthorne, Sir Terence Edward (1902 - 1970)". Royal College of Surgeons. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
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