Sir Francis Avery Jones

CBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

FRCP MRCS (31 May 1910 – 30 April 1998) was a Welsh

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and

gastroenterologist Gastroenterology (from the Greek gastḗr- “belly”, -énteron “intestine”, and -logía "study of") is the branch of medicine focused on the digestive system and its disorders. The digestive system consists of the gastrointestinal tract, ...

. He was born in Briton Ferry, Carmarthenshire, Wales but educated at the

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, Beccles, Suffolk and at

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Medical School, where he qualified in medicine in 1934. As a house physician he became interested in gastroenterology and based his successful future clinical career on the treatment of stomach and bowel ulceration. In 1940, he was appointed as Physician to the staff of the

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, where he joined a group of specialist gastroenterologists, remaining in the post until 1974. He also acted as consultant to St Mark's Hospital (1948–78) and the Royal Navy (1950–78). He was editor of the journal Gut from 1965 to 1970. Made a fellow of the

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he delivered a

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in 1947, a Lumleian lecture in 1956, a

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in 1969 and the

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in 1980. He was awarded

in 1966 and knighted in 1970. He served as president of the

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in 1977-78. He died in

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, West Sussex on 30 April 1998. He had married twice, firstly in 1934 Dorothea Pfirter (died 1983) with whom he had one son and secondly in 1983 Joan Edmunds.

External links

Sir Francis Avery Jones' page in the RCP official website

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, Francis Avery 1910 births 1998 deaths People from Carmarthenshire 20th-century Welsh medical doctors British gastroenterologists