Mahmud Bayumi, FRCS (''c'' 1890 - 1938) was an Egyptian orthopaedic surgery professor at

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. He established the Kasr El Aini Orthopaedic Surgery Department with Professor Mohamed Kamel Hussein. He is the father of the actor

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, Bayumi, who was studying in England, worked as a civilian contract surgeon in the Welsh Metropolitan War Hospital in

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. In his memoirs, the American orthopaedic surgeon

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described Bayumi as a "fine worker".Winnett Orr H
An Orthopedic Surgeon's Story of the Great War
. Huse Publishing Co, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1921 Bayumi and a fellow civilian Portuguese surgeon were assigned as assistants to two British surgeons and each had charge of two wards of about fifty beds each. Back to Egypt, he was assigned professor of surgery in the Egyptian University. In 1938 he established Kasr El Aini Orthopaedic Surgery Department, the oldest department dedicated for orthopaedic surgery in Egypt and the Middle East, with Professor Mohamed Kamel Hussein. On April 7, 1938, the council of the

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elected Bayumi as fellow of the College without examination.

Family

In October 1915, Bayumi married Helen MacKay, a Scottish lady.Mahmud Bayumi in the England & Wales, FreeBMD Marriage Index, 1837-1915
/ref> They had three male children: Hassan, who later became a doctor, Ramzy, who graduated from the Faculty of Commerce and became a film actor, and Omar, who died a child.

References

1890s births 1938 deaths Egyptian orthopaedic surgeons Egyptian expatriates in the United Kingdom Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons 20th-century surgeons {{Egypt-med-bio-stub