Clement Price Thomas

Sir Clement Price Thomas KCVO FRCS FRCP[1] (born Abercarn 22 November 1893 – died Midhurst [2] 19 March 1973) was a twentieth century pioneering surgeon most famous for his 1951 operation on George VI.[3]

Biography

Price Thomas was born in Abercarn and educated at Caterham School and the University College of South Wales [4] During the First World War he served with the Royal Army Medical Corps in Gallipoli, Macedonia and Palestine. After a period of study at Westminster Hospital Medical School, he qualified in 1921 and in time held all residential appointments there.[5]

In 1951, Thomas led the team that removed a cancerous left lung from King George VI. His Times obituary noted that despite his huge fame and international reputation "the more honours that befell him, the more did his innate modesty came to the fore".[6]

Notes

  1. ↑ Honour For The King's Doctor. The Times. (London, England), December 15, 1951; p. 6; issue 52185.
  2. ↑ Deaths. The Times. (London, England), March 21, 1973; p. 28, issue 58737.
  3. ↑ Operation On The King. The Times. (London, England), September 24, 1951; p. 4, issue 52114.
  4. ↑ ‘Price Thomas, Sir Clement’, Who Was Who. A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online ed., Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 2012 , accessed 17 June 2013.
  5. ↑ Cleland WP. "Sir Clement Price Thomas KCVO". Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. 54: 96–98. PMC 2388364 Freely accessible. PMID 4594305.
  6. ↑ Obituary: Sir Clement Price Thomas. The Times. (London, England), March 20, 1973; p. 16, issue 58736.


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