Small, Jack Morton

The following is an interim description which may change when detailed cataloguing takes place in future.

Material from Small's Second World War service and from the Midland Centre for Neurosurgery, Smethwick.

c.1940-1978

Uncatalogued: 1 transfer box

These papers were donated to the Library by Small's widow in 1997.

Small qualified in medicine at Birmingham University Medical School in 1937 and held posts at Birmingham General Hospital where, from 1940 he worked as a casualty surgeon. He also worked in neurosurgery at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham and in Oxford before joining the RAMC. He went on to command mobile neurosurgical units and to act as an adviser in neurosurgery, serving in Europe and the Far East.

In 1946 Small became consultant neurosurgeon to the United Birmingham Hospitals and also lectured at the University. In 1954 he was responsible for the establishment of the Midland Centre for Neurosurgery and Neurology in Smethwick where he remained until his retirement in 1978.

Further biographical information is available in the Lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England 1991-1996.

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