Sir Roger Henry Vickers
KCVO (born 1945) is a British orthopaedic surgeon, who had been part of the
Medical Household as an Orthopaedic Surgeon to the Queen and was later appointed
Serjeant Surgeon
The Serjeant Surgeon is the senior surgeon in the Medical Household of the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom. The origin of the post dates back to 1253. Early serjeant surgeons were military surgeons who followed their king ...
.
Biography
Roger Vickers is the son of
Henry Renwick Vickers (1911–1993), a noted
dermatologist who was elected a
Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1950 and served as president of the
British Association of Dermatology in 1966.
[S. C. Gold]
"Henry Renwick Vickers"
''Munk's Roll: Lives of the Fellows'' (Royal College of Physicians''. Retrieved 10 June 2019. He studied at
Magdalen College, Oxford
Magdalen College (, ) is a constituent college of the University of Oxford. It was founded in 1458 by William of Waynflete. Today, it is the fourth wealthiest college, with a financial endowment of £332.1 million as of 2019 and one of the s ...
, and then trained at
St Thomas's Hospital
St Thomas' Hospital is a large NHS teaching hospital in Central London, England. It is one of the institutions that compose the King's Health Partners, an academic health science centre. Administratively part of the Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foun ...
, earning his
medical degree in 1970.
Vickers became an
orthopaedic senior registrar in 1977 and three years later joined
St George's Hospital
St George's Hospital is a large teaching hospital in Tooting, London. Founded in 1733, it is one of the UK's largest teaching hospitals and one of the largest hospitals in Europe. It is run by the St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundatio ...
as a consultant orthopaedic
surgeon
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.
In 1992, he joined
King Edward VII's Hospital for Officers
King Edward VII's Hospital (formal name: King Edward VII's Hospital Sister Agnes) is a private hospital located on Beaumont Street in the Marylebone district of central London.
Agnes Keyser, later known as Sister Agnes, established the hospit ...
and the
Medical Household as the Orthopaedic Surgeon to the Queen and in 2006 he was appointed
Serjeant Surgeon to the Queen.
He led
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (4 August 1900 – 30 March 2002) was Queen of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 to 6 February 1952 as the wife of King George VI. She was the l ...
's surgical team in 1998 when she underwent
hip replacement surgery
Hip replacement is a surgical procedure in which the hip joint is replaced by a prosthetic implant, that is, a hip prosthesis. Hip replacement surgery can be performed as a total replacement or a hemi (half) replacement. Such joint replacement o ...
. In 2003, he also performed an operation on
Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 1926 – 8 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death in 2022. She was queen regnant of 32 sovereign states during ...
to remove
cartilage
Cartilage is a resilient and smooth type of connective tissue. In tetrapods, it covers and protects the ends of long bones at the joints as articular cartilage, and is a structural component of many body parts including the rib cage, the neck an ...
from her knee and
benign skin
lesions
A lesion is any damage or abnormal change in the tissue of an organism, usually caused by disease or trauma. ''Lesion'' is derived from the Latin "injury". Lesions may occur in plants as well as animals.
Types
There is no designated classifi ...
.
He retired from the Royal Household in 2010
and was appointed a Knight Commander of the
Royal Victorian Order
The Royal Victorian Order (french: Ordre royal de Victoria) is a dynastic order of knighthood established in 1896 by Queen Victoria. It recognises distinguished personal service to the British monarch, Canadian monarch, Australian monarch, o ...
in
that year's Birthday Honours.
Supplement to the London Gazette
', 12 June 2010 (issue 59446), p. 3 He was elected a
Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1975.
See also
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References
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Living people
1945 births
Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford
Knights Commander of the Royal Victorian Order
Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians
British orthopaedic surgeons
Honorary medical staff at King Edward VII's Hospital for Officers