Alan John Farthing,
FRCOG, (born 8 June 1963) is an English
obstetrician
Obstetrics is the field of study concentrated on pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period. As a medical specialty, obstetrics is combined with gynecology under the discipline known as obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN), which is a surgic ...
and
gynaecologist and Surgeon-Gynaecologist to
Queen Elizabeth II's
Royal Household.
Career
Farthing was born in
Winchester,
Hampshire
Hampshire (, ; abbreviated to Hants) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in western South East England on the coast of the English Channel. Home to two major English cities on its south coast, Southampton and Portsmouth, Hampshire ...
.
He attended
Beacon School in
Crowborough, East Sussex, where his father was headmaster.
After training at
St George's Hospital Medical School, London, Farthing qualified as a doctor in 1986. He became a member of the
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) is a professional association based in London, United Kingdom. Its members, including people with and without medical degrees, work in the field of obstetrics and gynaecology, that ...
in 1991, and a Fellow in 2003.
Farthing was appointed as a consultant gynaecologist at
St Mary's Hospital in 1997, where he also became an honorary Senior Lecturer at
Imperial College, London
Imperial College London (legally Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom. Its history began with Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria, who developed his vision for a c ...
. He is a specialist in
gynaecological cancer
Gynecologic oncology is a specialized field of medicine that focuses on cancers of the female reproductive system, including ovarian cancer, uterine cancer, vaginal cancer, cervical cancer, and vulvar cancer. As specialists, they have extensive ...
care, and an internationally recognised expert in the use of
laparoscopic
Laparoscopy () is an operation performed in the abdomen or pelvis using small incisions (usually 0.5–1.5 cm) with the aid of a camera. The laparoscope aids diagnosis or therapeutic interventions with a few small cuts in the abdomen.Medlin ...
and
hysteroscopic surgery.
Farthing has a private
Harley Street practice, and works as a consultant at two teaching hospitals in London:
Queen Charlotte's Hospital
Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital is one of the oldest maternity hospitals in Europe, founded in 1739 in London. Until October 2000, it occupied a site at 339–351 Goldhawk Road, Hammersmith, but is now located between East Acton and W ...
in
Shepherd's Bush, and St Mary's Hospital in
Paddington
Paddington is an area within the City of Westminster, in Central London. First a medieval parish then a metropolitan borough, it was integrated with Westminster and Greater London in 1965. Three important landmarks of the district are Padd ...
.
[
]
Surgeon-Gynaecologist to the Royal Household
In 2008, Farthing was appointed to assist Marcus Setchell, who was retiring from the NHS, as the Queen's Surgeon-Gynaecologist.
Personal life
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. After Farthing's divorce in late 1998, the couple announced their engagement on 31 January 1999 and were due to marry in September 1999.
On 26 April 1999, Dando was murdered on the doorstep of her house in Gowan Avenue,
. Farthing rarely speaks about Dando's murder, with his last major interview given to the ''
'' in June 1999. In the interview, Farthing said that Dando had made him breakfast at his then home in
, West London before he left for work. Dando then went shopping before returning to her home in Gowan Avenue, where she was shot and killed. Farthing described how a week after Dando's murder, he found a reporters' notebook containing a draft of the speech she had intended to give on their wedding day. Dando's co-presenter on ''
, proposed the formation of an academic institute in her name and together with Farthing raised almost £1.5 million. The
on 26 April 2001, the second anniversary of her murder.