BSH was saddened to learn of the death of former President Dr Bryon Roberts on Thursday, 10 January 2019.
Bryon Edward Roberts was born in 1933, the first child of Alice and Albert Roberts, the Labour Member of Parliament for Normanton. Bryon was President of BSH in 1993/94.
He entered Leeds Medical School in 1951, three years after the founding of the NHS. After qualification he worked as House Surgeon to Mr Digby Chamberlain and Mr Michael Oldfield, all protégées of the legendary Berkley Moynihan, the founding father of aseptic surgery, notably of the abdomen.
After house jobs he followed up on his scientific interest in Pathology and was appointed Registrar in the University Department of Pathology. In training at th...
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BSH was saddened to learn of the death of former President Dr Bryon Roberts on Thursday, 10 January 2019.
Bryon Edward Roberts was born in 1933, the first child of Alice and Albert Roberts, the Labour Member of Parliament for Nor...
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