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Sir Holburt Jacob Waring, 1st Baronet,
Sir Holburt Jacob Waring, 1st Baronet, CBE
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, FRCS
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(3 October 1866 – 10 February 1953) was a surgeon at St Bartholomew's Hospital
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History
Early history
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, London and was vice-chancellor of the University of London
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from 1922 to 1924.
Early life
He was born in Chorley, Lancashire, the eldest son of Isaac Waring, a schoolmaster, and his wife, Catherine Holburt. He attendedOwen's College
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, Manchester, (now the University of Manchester
, mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity
, established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univ ...
) and gained a BSc in physiology
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(1888), an MB (1890) in medicine and forensic medicine, a BS (1891) and MS in 1893. He became FRCS in 1891.
Career
He was demonstrator ofanatomy
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and teacher of surgery at St Bartholomews and rose to become consulting surgeon.
During the First World War he was a colonel
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in the Royal Army Medical Corps and consulting surgeon in addition to his hospital work. He was an officer of the Légion d'honneur
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.
He represented the Faculty of Medicine in the Senate of the University of London and in 1920 he was elected dean
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of the Faculty of Medicine, and was vice-chancellor of the University from 1922–24. He was also the first vice-president of the St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College and instrumental in getting it affiliated to the university.
He was elected President of the Medical Society of London
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(1925–26) and in 1935 was elected president of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
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, serving until 1937.
Personal life
He was awarded CBE in 1919, knighted in 1925 and became abaronet
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in 1935.
In 1900 he married Annie Cassandra (d 1948) and they had a son, Alfred Harold (1902–1981), who was a research engineer at ICI.
He died at his home in Tidenham
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, Gloucestershire, in 1953.
See also
* Waring baronets * List of Vice-Chancellors of the University of LondonReferences
Note : It is unclear from the two references if the degrees were Manchester or London degrees and, if the latter, where Waring did his studies. London awarded degrees externally to several institutions at the time. {{DEFAULTSORT:Waring, Holburt Jacob 1866 births 1953 deaths People from Chorley Alumni of the University of Manchester English surgeons Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons Vice-Chancellors of the University of London Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Knights Bachelor People from Tidenham