Evans , Philip Rainsford , 1910-1990 , paediatrician Evans , Barbara , 1909-1995 , nee Hay-Cooper , medical journalist and writer

Evans , Philip Rainsford , 1910-1990 , paediatrician Evans , Barbara , 1909-1995 , nee Hay-Cooper , medical journalist and writer

Philip Rainsford Evans was born, 1910; Educated Sidcup School, Somerset and Leighton Park School; graduated BSc, Manchester University, 1930; MB, ChB, 1933; married Barbara Hay-Cooper, 1935; children's registrar, King's College Hospital, 1935-1937, Rockefeller Travelling Research Fellow, 1937-1938; Asst Paediatrician, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, 1938-1939; Asst Physician to Children's Dept., King's College Hospital, 1939; Served with RAMC in North Africa and Italy, mentioned in despatches, Advisor in Medicine, Central Mediterranean Forces received rank of honorary Lt-Col, 1942-1946; MSc MD, 1941; FRCP, 1945; Physician, The Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, 1946-1975; Director, Dept. of Paediatrics, Guy's Hospital, 1946-1971; Editor, Archives of Disease in Childhood,1947-1954; Honorary Secretary, British Paediatric Association, 1954-1959; Honorary consultant on paediatrics to the Army, 1962-1966; Leader of the medical team sent out to the Children's Hospital, Saigon, 1966-1969; President of the section of paediatrics, Royal Society of Medicine, 1968-1969, CBE, 1968; Director, Tay-Sachs Foundation, 1971-1974; Physician-Paediatrician to the Queen, 1972-1976 , died, 1990.

Barbara Evans was born, 1909; Qualified in medicine at the Royal Free Hospital, 1934; married Philip Rainsford Evans, 1935; did important pathological research in connection with Sir Archibald McIndoe's plastic surgery team at Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, 1939-1945; Became a freelance journalist on medical matters, including being Medical Correspondent of the Sunday Times , 1950s; Went to Saigon with Philip Rainsford Evans, 1966; Published Caduceus in Saigon on the work of the paediatric team in Vietnam, 1968; Became Associate Editor of World Medicine, 1973; Consultant Editor of World Medicine, 1978-1980; Published Life Change, a popular manual on the menopause, 1979; Published Freedom to Choose: the Life and Work of Dr Helena Wright, Pioneer of Contraception, 1984; died, 1995.