Sir Cuthbert Sidney Wallace, 1st Baronet (20 June 1867 – 24 May 1944) was a British

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. He was born in Surbiton, Surrey, the youngest son of the Rev. John Wallace and educated at Winchester House School,

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, 1881–86, and

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, London. At St Thomas's he was a successively appointed house surgeon, senior

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house physician, surgical registrar and in 1897, resident assistant surgeon. During the

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(1899–1900) he volunteered to work at the

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under

Anthony Bowlby Sir Anthony Alfred Bowlby, 1st Baronet (10 May 1855 – 7 April 1929) was a British Army officer, surgeon and pathologist. Early life Anthony Bowlby was born in Namur, Belgium, the third son of Thomas William Bowlby (1818–1860) and Frances Ma ...

. After the war he returned to St Thomas's as an assistant surgeon and was in 1913 promoted to surgeon. During the

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he served in France as a consulting surgeon to the First Army, British Expeditionary Force, with the temporary rank of colonel,

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, being promoted to major-general in 1917. During the

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of 1918, For his war service he was created C.M.G in 1916 and C.B. in 1918, and promoted K.C.M.G. in 1919. After the war he again returned to St Thomas's to serve as senior surgeon and director of the surgical unit and was later elected consultant surgeon and dean of the medical school. He was also dean of the Medical Faculty of the

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. He was on the council of the

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for 24 years, was a vice-president in 1926-27, and president in 1935-38. He delivered the

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(on prostate enlargement) in 1927 and gave the

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in 1934. He was created a Baronet in 1937. In his later career he sat on a number of committees and commissions. During the

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he was appointed chairman of the consultant advisers to the Ministry of Health's emergency medical service, was a member of the Army Medical Advisory Board, and was appointed chairman of the Medical Research Council's committee for the application of the results of new research to the treatment of war wounds. He died in

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, London on 24 May 1944. He had married Florence Mildred, the daughter of Herbert Jackson of Sussex Place, Regent's Park, but had no children.

Publications

*
A Civilian War Hospital
', with Anthony Bowlby, being an account of the work of the Portland Hospital and of experience of wounds and sickness in South Africa, 1900 (etc.), 8vo, 50 plates, London, 1901. *
War Surgery of the Abdomen
', 1918, Author: Cuthbert Sidney Wallace, Publisher: J. & A. Churchill, 1918 *
Surgery at a Casualty Clearing Station
', with Sir John Fraser, 1918, Publisher: London, A. & C. Black, ltd.

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wallace, Cuthbert Sidney 1867 births 1944 deaths People from Surbiton People educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College English surgeons Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

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