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Authorised form of nameRidley; Nicholas Harold Lloyd (1906 - 2001)
Dates1906 - 2001
NationalityBritish
Place of birthKibworth Harcourt, Leicestershire, England
Date of birth10/07/1906
Place of deathSalisbury, Wiltshire
Date of death25/05/2001
OccupationOpthalmic surgeon
ActivityEducation:
Neville Holt School (1915-1920); Charterhouse (1920-1924); Pembroke College Cambridge (1924-1927); St Thomas' Hospital, London. BA (1927, Natural Science Tripos); MB Tripos (1927); MA; MB (1931); BChirur
Career:
Surgeon, Moorfields Eye Hospital (1938-1971); Ophthalmic Surgeon, St Thomas' Hospital, London (1946-1971); Major, Royal Army Medical Corps, serving in the Gold Coast, Burma and Singapore (1943-1946); Honorary Consultant Opthalmologist, Ministry of Defence (Burma) (1965-1970); World Health Organisation Advisor on Parasitology (1966-1971)
Honours:
Kt 2000
Memberships:
MRCS; FRCS (1932); LRCP (1930); Opthalmic Society of UK (Honorary)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election20/03/1986
Age at election79
RelationshipsEldest son of a naval surgeon; Married (10 May 1941) Elizabeth Jane, daughter of Henry Buswell Wetherill , Indian Civil Service; children Margaret (1942); Nicholas Charles Wetherill (1943); David Geoffrey Allder (1951)
SourceObituaries:
Biographical Memoirs 2007, Volume 53, pp 285-308 by David J Apple
Obituary Independent 13 June 2001
CodeNA7163
Archives associated with this Fellow
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M/253Ridley, Nicholas Harold Lloyd2002
IM/GA/SGRS/8445Ridley, Nicholas Harold Lloyd1986
EC/1986/31Ridley, Nicholas Harold Lloyd: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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