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Archibald Gray (dermatologist)

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Sir Archibald Montague Henry Gray KCVO CBE TD FRCP FRCS (1 February 1880 – 13 October 1967) was a British dermatologist and gynaecologist, who was consulting physician for diseases of the skin at University College Hospital and to Great Ormond Street Hospital. Between 1948 and 1962, he was adviser in dermatology to the Ministry of Health. Between 1940 and 1942, he was president of the Royal Society of Medicine.[1][2][3][4][5] In England, he was first to perform a Wertheim hysterectomy.[6]

Gray endorsed the development of medical mycology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. From 1948 to 1959 he chaired the MRC's Medical Mycology Committee.[7]

Gray was knighted in 1946.[3] In October 1951 he delivered the Harveian Oration.[8]

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  1. ^ Crissey, John Thorne; Lawrence C. Parish; Karl Holubar. (2013). "Mid-twentieth century dermatologists, events, and discoveries". Historical Atlas of Dermatology and Dermatologists. Boca Raton: CRC Press. p. 165. ISBN 978-1-84184-864-8.
  2. ^ England, Royal College of Surgeons of. "Gray, Sir Archibald Montague Henry - Biographical entry - Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online". livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk. Retrieved 6 September 2018.
  3. ^ a b Archives, The National. "The Discovery Service". discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Retrieved 6 September 2018.
  4. ^ "Munks Roll Details for Archibald Montague Henry (Sir) Gray". munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk. Retrieved 6 September 2018.
  5. ^ Goldsmith, W. N. (21 October 1967). "Obituary - Gray". British Medical Journal. 4 (5572): 178–179. doi:10.1136/bmj.4.5572.178. PMC 1750056. PMID 4861384.
  6. ^ Orpin, S. (1 July 2011). "Sir Archibald Grey 1880–1967: founding father of the British Association of Dermatologists". Clinical and Experimental Dermatology. 36 (5): 548–552. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2230.2011.04055.x10.1111/j.1365-2230.2011.04055.x. ISSN 1365-2230.
  7. ^ Geoffrey C. Ainsworth. Brief Biographies of British Mycologists (John Webster, David Moore, eds.), p. 73 (British Mycological Society; 1996) (ISBN 0 9527704 0 7)
  8. ^ Gray, A. (1951). "Dermatology from the Time of Harvey". The Lancet. 258 (6688): 795–802. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(51)91591-7. PMID 14874515.


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