Handley , William Sampson , 1872-1962 , surgeon

W Sampson Handley trained at Guy's Hospital, and graduated MB, BS, in 1895. After a period in general practice, his first post as a surgeon was at the Samaritan Hospital in 1900. In 1904 he won a research scholarship at the Middlesex Hospital, investigating the mode of spread of cancer. He was appointed assistant surgeon at the Middlesex in 1906, and pursued his researches in the Cancer Wing there while becoming a skilled abdominal surgeon.