Clement Price Thomas

In this name, the family name is Price Thomas, not 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.[6]

His Times obituary noted that despite his huge fame and international reputation "the more honours that befell him, the more did his inate modesty came to the fore".[7]

Notes

  1. ↑ Honour For The King's Doctor The Times (London, England), Saturday, Dec 15, 1951; pg. 6; Issue 52185
  2. ↑ Deaths The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Mar 21, 1973; pg. 28; Issue 58737
  3. ↑ Operation On The King The Times (London, England), Monday, Sep 24, 1951; pg. 4; Issue 52114
  4. ↑ ‘PRICE THOMAS, Sir Clement’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 17June 2013
  5. ↑ Brief biography
  6. ↑ "Think The Crown's team of surgeons looked realistic as they wielded their scalpels on Netflix's new TV show? That's because they were a REAL surgical team from a top hospital". Daily Mail. 5 November 2016. Retrieved 6 November 2016.
  7. ↑ Obituary: Sir Clement Price Thomas The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Mar 20, 1973; pg. 16; Issue 58736
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