Sir William Taylor / [Donald Church Balfour].

  • Balfour, Donald C. (Donald Church), 1882-
Date:
[1934]
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Credit: Sir William Taylor / [Donald Church Balfour]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Reprint front SURGERY, GYNECOLOGY AND OBSTETRICS April, 1934, Vol. LV1II, 795-796 SIR WILLIAM TAYLOR DONALD C. BALFOUR, M.D., F.A.C.S., Rochester, Minnesota THE sudden death, January 30, 1933, of Sir William Taylor of Dublin, an honorary Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, came as a great shock to his many friends over the world. Sir William was born in County Donegal, September 21, 1871, and received his early education at The Strabane Academy. His later academic distinctions and his long service at the Meath Hospital have been recorded in the Lancet, as follows: “Sir William Taylor, in the medical schools of the Irish Royal Colleges and the University of Dublin proved himself a distinguished student by securing the gold medal of operative surgery and the Mayne scholarship. From the University of Dublin he received the M.B. degree in 1901, having previously secured the F.R.C.S., Ireland. He was appointed assistant surgeon to the Meath Hospital in 1898 and as full surgeon in 1900. He was consulting surgeon to this hospital at the time of his death, so that he had given it life-long service.” Many honors were accorded Sir William in his own country, and last year, 1933, he was to serve as president of the surgical section of the British Medical Association which met in Dublin. He was elected to the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and in 1914 was vice-president and president in 1916. On the outbreak of the war he was accorded the rank of colonel, Royal Army Medical Corps. He was one of the surgeons to the Dublin Castle Red Cross Hospital, and at the request of the War Office he organized a hospital in France, selecting the staff from men too old for rigorous service. During the war he was indefatigable, and his energy and skill while working with the “83 (Dublin) General Hospital” at Boulogne was recognized with the C.B. in 1917 and the K.B.E. in 1918. In 1922, Sir William became Regius Professor of Surgery at Dublin University, and in 1923 surgeon to Sir Patrick Dun’s Hospital. He was president of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland in 1924-1925 and was president of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland in 1927. In addition to his posts at the Meath Hospital and at Sir Patrick Dun’s Hospital, he was consulting surgeon to the Coombe Lying-in Hospital, the Stevens Hospital, and the Dental Hospital of Ireland. As was said in the British Medical Journal, “Few