Gwillim, Calvert Merton

Person

Gwillim, Calvert Merton

1899-1972

"Born on 26 October 1899 in Ceylon. He was educated first at Swansea and later at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he qualified in 1921.

He first became a house surgeon at Leicester Royal Infirmary where he gained considerable experience in general surgery. In 1923 he took his DPH and following year proceeded to take his MD in obstetrics, gynaecology and medicine. After his house appointments he became gynaecological tutor at St George's Hospital and also assistant medical registrar. In 1936 he was appointed to the staff of St George's and worked at that hospital until his retirement in 1965. In addition to his appointment at St George's he became obstetric physician to the Samaritan Hospital for Women and Gynaecological surgeon to the Weir Hospital and at Maidenhead and Bushey Hospitals. During the war he was in the EMS and worked at St Stephen's Hospital in Fulham Road, but later returned to St George's to act first as a casualty surgeon and later as a gynaecologist.

He was an examiner for the University of Cambridge and as associate editor of Operative Surgery, in which he wrote chapters on vaginal hysterectomy and uterine prolapse.

He married twice and was survived by his son David. Gwillim died at Reading on 2 September 1972. "

Royal College of Surgeons