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William George Barnard
British pathologist, born December 9, 1892; died December 20, 1956, St. Thomas’s Hospital, London.
Associated eponyms:
Barnard's carcinoma (William George Barnard)
A metastatic tumour that usually forms a large mass which replaces the lymph nodes of the mediastinum and infiltrates the pericardium, while a relatively small mass occupies the hilum of the lung and involves a bronchus.
Biography:
William George Barnard was the son of a missionary and spent his early years in Tangier. He was educated privately and became a captain in the RAF during World War I. He received his medical education at the London Hospital and qualified M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. in 1920. He was elected F.R.C.P. in 1938.
Following qualification, Barnard spent some time as clinical assistants to surgical out-patients at the London Hospital. He then concentrated more on pathology and in 1923 left London Hospital to become pathologist to the University College Hospital and lecturer in pathology and curator of the museum in the medical school. In 1927 he spent six months in the department of Professor Karl Albert Ludwig Aschoff (1866-1942) at Freiburg.
In 1931 he became consultant histologist at the Archway Hospital. In 1939, following the death of
Leonard Stanley Dudgeon (1876-1938), he was appointed professor of pathology at St. Thomas’s Hospital Medical School. After the war his administrative talents were vital in the reorganisation of the medical education with St. Thomas’s becoming a separate entity as a medical school of the University.
Barnard became a member of the Senate of the University of London in 1951, and, shortly before his death, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine.
Besides medicine, Barnard had many interests. He played golf, being a member of the Royal St. George’s Club at Sandwich and of the Royal Cinque Ports Club at Deal, and competed every year in the competition for the Treasurer’s Cup ay St. Thomas’s. He also loved gardening
This text is based on an obituary in the Journal of Clinical Pathology:
- Ronald Hare:
William George Barnard.
Journal of Clinical Pathology, London, February 1957, 10 (1): 110–112.
The complete obituary is available on the www:
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=1024012&blobtype=pdf
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