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Kenelm Hutchinson DIGBY [1884-1954]

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Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2012-02-04 11:18
Names
Given: 
Kenelm Hutchinson
Family: 
Digby
Sex: 
Male
Status: 
Deceased
Birth
Date: 
c.1884-08-04 (Month, Day are approximate)
Birthplace (town, state): 
Ealing, London
Birthplace (country): 
England
Death
Date: 
c.1954-12-31 (Month, Day are approximate)

Barbara Anslow:

[In 1942] he was a medical professor.

HKU Press have a book about Professor Digby: "Digby: A Remarkable Life". There's an overview of the book on the HKU Press website, and extracts can be read in Google Books.

 

Tags: 
WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp
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Birth Index

Kenelm H Digby 1884 Ealing

Passenger List 1923 Liverpool to New York

Kenelm Hutchinson Digby 38 Professor of Surgery

Marriage  Kenelm H Digby to Selina Dorothey Law in Bucklow Cheshire 1913

Passenger List 1931 Hong Kong to Vancouver in transit

Kenelm Hutchinson Digby 48 born Ealing  Middlesex

Selina Dorothy Digby 42 born Leverhulme Lancashire

Dawn Digby 8 born London

Probate Record

Kenelm Hutchinson Digby O.B.E died at Guys hospital 23 February 1954

In 1955, the year after his death, the K. H. Digby Memorial Fund was set up at the University of Hong Kong.

Professor Digby will be remembered for his excellent teaching, his enthusiasm in the wards, his infectious laugh and humour, and his stern discipline in the operation theatre. He was a big man in every sense of the word

 

  • Surgical Registrar and Anæsthetist to Guy's Hospital, 1909–11
  • Principal Medical Officer, Great Central Railway, 1912
  • Professor of Anatomy, University of Hong Kong, 1913–23
  • Professor of Surgery, University of Hong Kong, 1923–45
  • Ho Tung Professor of Clinical Surgery, University of Hong Kong, 1915–45
  • Honorary Consultant in Surgery to Government of Hong Kong, 1915–48
  • Surgeon, Queen Mary Hospital, 1930–48
  • engaged in research work, at Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1949 onwards
  • Emeritus Professor of Surgery, University of Hong Kong, 1950

Digby was interned in  Stanley Internment Camp Hong Kong during the war. He retired from Hong Kong to England in 1949.