Terence English

Sir
Terence English
KBE FRCS FRCP
English in August 2017
Born
Terence Alexander Hawthorne English

October 1932 (age 92)
Pietermaritzburg, Union of South Africa
NationalityBritish
Education
Known for
Awards
  • Lifetime Achievement Award from Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in GB and Ireland 2009
  • Lifetime Achievement Award from International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation 2014
  • Ray C Fish Award for Scientific Achievement in Cardiovascular Disease from the Texas Heart Institute 2014.
Medical career
ProfessionCardiothoracic surgeon
FieldCardiothoracic surgery
InstitutionsPapworth Hospital, Cambridge
ResearchCardiac transplantation
Awards
  • Lifetime Achievement Award from Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in GB and Ireland 2009
  • Lifetime Achievement Award from International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation 2014
  • Ray C Fish Award for Scientific Achievement in Cardiovascular Disease from the Texas Heart Institute 2014.

Sir Terence Alexander Hawthorne English KBE FRCS FRCP (born October 1932)[1] is a South African-born British retired cardiac surgeon. He was consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at Papworth Hospital and Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, 1973–1995. After starting a career in mining engineering, English switched to medicine and went on to lead the team that performed Britain's first successful heart transplant in August 1979 at Papworth, and soon established it as one of Europe's leading heart–lung transplant programmes.[2]

Born into a family of mixed Irish, Afrikaans, Yorkshire and Scottish descendants, English's father died at age 49, leaving his mother to bring up two children in South Africa. After completing a degree in Mining Engineering in Johannesburg, he was inspired by a maternal uncle, who was a surgeon, to study medicine, and with the financial aid of an unexpected legacy travelled to London. After completing his medical training at Guy's Hospital Medical School, he was stimulated by the pioneering open heart surgery taking place in the 1960s and he embarked on a career in cardiac surgery and then specialised in cardiac transplantation.[3][4]

English became president of the Royal College of Surgeons 1989–92, Master of St Catharine's College 1993–2000, Deputy Lieutenant for Cambridgeshire 1994–2001 and president of the British Medical Association 1995–1996. A member of the General Medical Council (GMC) (1983–1989), he has also been president of International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation 1984–1985 and holds multiple international honorary fellowships and Doctorates of medical colleges and universities.[5][6] He was knighted, KBE in 1991.[3][7][8]

  1. ^ 'English, Sir Terence (Alexander Hawthorne)', Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2013; online edn, Dec 2013. "Follow Your Star – From Mining to Heart Transplants" Authorhouse 2011 ISBN 978-1-4567-7131-7 (sc) accessed 17 Dec 2013
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  3. ^ a b Newton, Charlotte (30 June 2015). "Interview: Sir Terence English". The Bulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. 97 (7): 289–291. doi:10.1308/rcsbull.2015.289. ISSN 1473-6357.
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  5. ^ Johannesburg, The University of the Witwatersrand. "Sir Terence English – Wits University". www.wits.ac.za. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
  6. ^ "Oxford Brookes awards honorary doctorates to leading figures – Oxford Brookes University". www.brookes.ac.uk. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
  7. ^ "British Cardiac Pioneer Sir Terence English Receives Texas Heart Institute's 2014 Ray C. Fish Award". www.texasheart.org. Archived from the original on 7 August 2017. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
  8. ^ contra (19 January 2015). "Sir Terence English". St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Retrieved 27 July 2017.