George G. Turner (1877-1951), surgeon
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Type of entity: Person
Name: George G. Turner
Date of birth: 1877
Date of death: 1951
Roles: surgeon
Source of information: Leeds University Special Collections
Profile
George Grey Turner was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1877. He undertook medical training at the Newcastle Medical School of the University of Durham, and continued at King's College Hospital, London.
After qualifying, he returned to Newcastle and joined both the Royal Victoria Infirmary as a surgeon and the Newcastle Medical School as a lecturer, in addition to running his own practice. Turner went on to become Emeritus Professor of Surgery at the School.
In 1926 he was elected to the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons; 8 years later he moved to London to become the first director of surgery at the British Postgraduate Medical School in Hammersmith. He was an original member of the Moynihan Chirurgical Club, set up by Berkeley G.A. Moynihan, 1st Baron Moynihan.
Turner had married Alice (Elsie) Grey Schofield in 1908, they went on to have four children. He died in 1951.