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LMI Transactions and Report 2014 - 20<strong>15</strong> When Charnley died in 1982, Chris became a trustee of the trust bearing Charnley's name and subsequently its chairman for which he edited essays "After Charnley" for the Robert Jones Series. Later he returned to work at Wrightington performing hip and knee revision surgery until he suffered a mild heart attack in 2003, described by his wife Patti as “his first attention seeking illness”, causing Chris to stop water skiing and surgery. He and Patti, a Consultant Radiologist, have three children, none medical, and seven grandchildren. Faux continues to encourage research on behalf of the trust and nowadays he is a rugby spectator but regrettably continues to enjoy gun sports. In conclusion Mr President, our honorary member’s successful career was only interrupted by a decade at medical school where he enjoyed himself and met his wife. I have the honour to present James Christopher Faux for Life Membership of our Institution. GERARD ANTHONY McLOUGHLIN Chris Evans Gerry is a retired vascular surgeon who worked at the Royal Liverpool Hospital. He was born in the Scottish borders and exiled from Newcastle by German bombers. His mother’s family was from Scotland, his father’s from the west of Ireland. Both had settled in Newcastle Upon Tyne. Six months after Gerry was born, his Father was tragically killed in action in Sicily. His Mother trained to become a school teacher to support their only child. He boarded at Austin Friars School Carlisle and studied Classics. Inspired by the school’s GP he studied sciences and entered medical school. In 1966 he qualified from Durham Medical School with a First Class medical honors degree. House jobs in Newcastle were followed by registrar jobs in general surgery, initially on the Brewer and Helsby firm at the Liverpool Royal Infirmary. In 1971 he married Liz McSweeney and he has three children, Claire, Anthony and Terence. He obtained Fellowships from the Edinburgh and London Colleges and then obtained senior jobs working with Professor Robert Shields and Robert Sells and then senior registrar with John McFarland. He was a vascular Fellow in Boston and Harvard for several years and obtained an MD and MS. He was appointed as Consultant Vascular Surgeon at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, initially working with Raymond Helsby until he retired in 1980 and then Gerry was in single-handed practice providing vascular services to the hospital. In 1999 following cardiac surgery, he retired from the NHS but then studied law and became a medically qualified judge working with the Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal Board. He also undertook medico-legal work. When Pope John Paul visited Liverpool in 1982, he was volunteered by his colleagues to be the on-call surgeon for papal emergencies. Six months after the visit Bishop Vincent Malone rang his doorbell. As a token of gratitude the Pope had sent a medal. Gerry believes this is the only time a vascular surgeon has been awarded a papal medal sent by a Bishop. Outside of medicine and family, his interests are French language and literature and rugby union. As well as playing rugby until aged 40 he was the Liverpool Club doctor for about twenty years. He has left directions that he is to be buried in his Liverpool Rugby Club jersey. Max McCormick ELIZABETH MARY PRESTON The eldest of five girls, Dr Elizabeth Preston was always busy as a child, a habit she continued into her career. She was educated at The Alice Ottley School for Girls, Worcester, which since she has left has amalgamated with the adjacent boys school and a gate has been inserted into the 30ft wall - no doubt since she left it was felt the wall wasn’t necessary. She completed her 46
LMI Transactions and Report 2014 - 20<strong>15</strong> medical degree here in Liverpool and after house jobs worked in most of the hospitals in Liverpool, as they were then, as an anaesthetic trainee. This included learning to give open ether from Dr J Beddard. She was appointed as a Consultant in Anaesthesia including Neuroanaesthesia at Walton and Fazakerley Hospitals in 1975, later renamed Aintree University Hospitals. Her medical career was notable for the multiple times she had to change her roles and responsibilities as she worked between the Walton site and Fazakerley - something we may all be about to go through again as talks of merging hospitals and service reconfiguration abound. She will be remembered as a medical leader in Liverpool, firstly as Clinical Director in anaesthesia and latterly as Medical Director for ten years (longer than most survive in that position) including six months as acting Chief Executive of Aintree Hospital. Outside medicine, as a school girl she competed very successfully at national level in show jumping and three day eventing, a skill she taught her children. Her son Nick is a Consultant in Anaesthesia in Bristol Southmead Hospital and her daughter Caroline has degrees in both Business and Law. She has two grandchildren and one more on the way. Like many in the medical profession she met her husband at work. Tim, who is known to many of you, was a registrar for Mr James Cosbie Ross when they met at the lunch table. 46 years later they are still enjoying lunch together, thanks partly to Tim’s present early in their marriage of a 72 edition Cordon Bleu cookery course. Austin McCormick JOHN BOLTON RIDYARD John Ridyard and I first met at the Royal Southern Hospital, when John was the new house physician and I the medical registrar on Dr Gerard Sanderson’s Firm. The apprenticeship was to influence both our careers as regards a physicianly ethos, student and junior staff welfare and training, as well as team work based on the firm structure. John’s father was a Methodist minister from the Yorkshire dales where John went to primary school prior to attending Rydal in the welsh hills. As an outstanding A level student he went to Cambridge and graduated in natural sciences before joining the Liverpool Medical School from where he graduated in 1968. His straightforward, conscientious and sympathetic approach to his professional career was rapidly rewarded with MRCP and an MD from the Broadgreen Chest Unit where he utilised the radioactive Xenon apparatus to study regional lung function in a variety of medical and musculoskeletal disorders under the direction of Colin Ogilvie. As a medical registrar he had a year out, not in the USA or Europe, but in Nigeria as a lecturer in medicine at the Ahmadu Bello University Hospital in Zaria. This established his love of Africa, where he has returned several times. He has crossed the Sahara desert and climbed Kilimanjaro to cite but two of many revisits. John’s hobbies are extensive; choral music - he was a founder member of the Renaissance Music Group of Liverpool - fell walking unsurprisingly, cycling, travel especially railways as a latter day Bradshaw rather than a Portillo, squash and gardening. John was appointed as Consultant General Physician to Whiston Hospital where he enjoyed all medical disciplines and started undergraduate teaching rounds in the manner of his mentor. A dedicated full time physician he developed lung function and bronchoscopy services as well as cardiac measurement and the CCU. When aged 46, this self titled unreconstructed bachelor married Joyce, a Care of the Elderly Physician, with immediate results such that there are two sons, both now junior doctors. John’s latest baby is their border terrier. Mr President, I have the honour of presenting to you for Life Membership of this Institution, John Bolton Ridyard, a resolute trustworthy Yorkshire physician who is best described by the phrase “what you see and hear is what you get”. Chris Evans 47
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