MED/11/2/2/6 - Items collected by John Rowland Hughes - 1921-1970
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- MED/11/2/2/6/1: Menu Card. Dinner in Honour of Major-General Sir Robert Jones at the Midland Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool on the Occasion of the Presentation of his Portrait by his Friends and Colleagues at The Royal Southern Hospital, Liverpool. (31 Jan 1921)
Archive level description: Series Physical Description: 9 items Previous ID: D1111
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| Date: | 1921-1970 |
| Reference Number: | MED/11/2/2/6 |
| Custodial History: | Donated by Marie Carter, Archive Officer at the Frances Costello Library, RJAH Orthopaedic and District Hospital where other papers of John Rowland Hughes are held. |
| Biographical/Administrative Information: | John Rowland Hughes was born and educated in Llangollen, and did his medical training at the University of Liverpool, where he qualified at the beginning of the war.
His first post was house surgeon to Watson-Jones at Liverpool Royal Infirmary. From 1941 to 1946, he was in the RAF Medical Service at Ely, and then the Weeton RAF orthopaedic centre at Fylde. After the war, he returned to Liverpool to specialise in orthopaedics, gaining the Edinburgh FRCS, MCh Orth and MD degrees.
He was appointed consultant surgeon to the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry, in 1950, which began the transformation of Oswestry from a country hospital into a regional teaching centre of excellence. He inherited after-care clinics in North and mid-Wales, extending from Colwyn Bay to Aberystwyth, which were held in unlikely venues such as church halls, chapels, masonic halls and the Corwen Welsh-speaking Union Club. Rowland played a seminal part in this, instituting the Friday clinical conference to replace the long ward round as the main teaching forum. The 'Welsh firm' was the first to hold this conference regularly on a Friday afternoon, and gradually the custom of dining in the mess on a Friday evening, followed by entertainments such as Oswestry billiards, became a tradition. He was a member of many national and international societies and a popular visiting professor all over the world.
SOURCE: Royal College of Surgeons of England, 'Obituary, Hughes, John Rowland (1915 - 1998)', Plarr's Lives of the Fellows, (6 November 2015). |