Description: Up for auction a RARE! "British Surgeon" Cecil Wakeley Hand Signed 3X5 Card. This item is certified authentic by JG Autographs and comes with their Certificate of Authenticity. ES-1683B Sir Cecil Pembrey Grey Wakeley, 1st Baronet KBE CB PRCS FRSE (5 May 1892 – 5 June 1979) was a 20th-century British surgeon. He was born the eldest son of 12 children at Meresborough House, a country estate near Rainham, Kent, the son of Percy Wakeley (1860–1954) and his first wife Mary ("May") Sophia Pembrey (1865–1940). He was educated from 1904 to 1907 at King's School, Rochester in Kent and then from 1907 to 1910 at Dulwich College. In 1910 he went to King's College Hospital, where he received the Jelf Medal for surgery and qualified in 1915. He joined the Royal Navy and spent World War I as a Surgeon-Lieutenant aboard the hospital ship HMS Garth Castle at Scapa Flow. In 1922 he was appointed to the staff at King’s College, London and was senior surgeon from the age of 41 until his retirement. In 1926 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were David Waterston, Reginald Gladstone, John Millar Thomson and Joseph Strickland Goodall. In the Second World War he was again a surgeon serving the Royal Navy at the honorary rank of Rear Admiral. He was made a baronet in 1952. In 1947 he founded the Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England which he continued to edit until 1969. He was President of the College from 1949-1954 during the period of establishment of the Faculty of Anaesthesia. He was elected President of the Hunterian Society for 1961. Wakeley was active in creationist circles and was a member of the Evolution Protest Movement (now Creation Science Movement). He died in London on 5 June 1979.
Price: 399.99 USD
Location: Fort Lauderdale, Florida
End Time: 2024-12-09T13:23:49.000Z
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