Papers of Mr William Barr Stirling (1914-1988), Urological Surgeon

• Reference:GB 250 37
• Dates of Creation:1936-1980
• Language of Material:English
• Physical Description:
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• Scope and Content

  Report of the visit of Glasgow University Medico-Chirurgical Society to the hospitals and medical schools of Berlin, Hamburg and London, 1936; talks, with slides, and articles, 1966-c. 1980; material relating to the Senior Fellows Club, 1980; A Short History of Glasgow Royal Infirmary by John Partick, 1940; reprint of the first issue of the Glasgow Advertiser 1783, 20th Century.

• Administrative / Biographical History

  William Barr Stirling was born on 8 August 1914. He was educated at Glasgow Academy and graduated MB, ChB from Glasgow University in 1937 and was admitted a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in both Edinburgh and Glasgow in 1948. He joined the Royal Navy in 1939, took part in the Norwegian campaign and also helped establish the naval hospital in Ceylon. On returning to Glasgow he joined the staff of Glasgow Royal Infirmary, working with Mr Arthur Jacobs, whom he succeeded as chief in the urology department in 1964. He remained in charge of the department until 1977. His book, Aortography, published in 1957, became a classic of its day.

  Obituary, British Medical Journal, 1984, Volume 288, p.1622

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