Gordon Bell (surgeon)

Sir Francis Gordon Bell[1] KBE (13 September 1887– 28 February 1970) was a New Zealand surgeon and university professor. He was born in Grovetown, Marlborough, New Zealand on 13 September 1887.[2] He trained in medicine at the University of Edinburgh, gaining the Vans Dunlop Scholarship in anatomy in 1908 and graduating MB, ChB in 1910. He completed his MD, on the development and histology of the occipital region of the brain, in 1913.[3] He gained distinction as a battlefield surgeon during the First world War and was awarded the military cross in 1916.[4] After the war he returned to Edinburgh and worked as a tutor and then an assistant surgeon at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, before returning to New Zealand in 1925 to work at the University of Otago Medical School in Dunedin.

In the 1953 Coronation Honours Bell was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress)". id.loc.gov. The Library of Congress. Retrieved 2018-04-24.
  2. ↑ Beasley, A. W. "Francis Gordon Bell". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
  3. ↑ Bell, Francis Gordon (1913). "Development and histology of the occipital region of the brain. Human and comparative". MD thesis.
  4. ↑ Bell, Francis Gordon. "Online Cenotaph". Auckland Museum. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
  5. ↑ "No. 39866". The London Gazette (Supplement). 26 May 1953. pp. 3003–3006.


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