Tudor Edwards | |
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 Arthur Tudor Edwards as photographed by Howard Coster | |
| Born | Arthur Tudor Edwards 7 March 1890 |
| Died | 25 August 1946 |
| Nationality | Welsh |
| Education | St John's College, Cambridge |
| Occupation | surgeon |
| Known for | Thoracic surgery on |
| Relatives | wife, Evelyn Imelda Chichester Hoskin |
| Medical career | |
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Arthur Tudor Edwards (7 March 1890 – 25 August 1946) was a Welsh thoracic surgeon, who worked at the Westminster Hospital, the Royal Brompton Hospital and Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton and pioneered lung surgery, in particularly pulmonary tuberculosis and lung tumours.
Edwards was born in Swansea on 7 March 1890, the elder son of William Edwards and his wife Mary Griffith Thomas. He was educated at Mill Hill School, London, St John's College, Cambridge, and at Middlesex Hospital, London, where he qualified as a doctor in 1913. He was appointed house surgeon and surgical registrar at the Middlesex, and obtained the higher degrees of M.Ch. and FRCS in 1915.
Edwards was commissioned in the Royal Army Medical Corps in World War I, rising to the rank of major. He was the first Director of the Department of Thoracic Surgery at the London Hospital.[1]
He was also responsible for the training of notable surgeons including Dwight Harken, Sir Clement Price Thomas and Sir Russell Brock.
- ^ "Edwards, Arthur Tudor (1890–1946)". Royal College of Surgeons. Retrieved 18 December 2017.