Surgeon, MA MD MCh FRCS. After qualifying at St Thomas's Hospital in 1936 he travelled for a while as a ship's surgeon. In 1939 he took the FRCS and was surgical registrar, later acting assistant surgeon, at St Thomas's. In 1942 he became surgical chief assistant at the London Hospital, and the following year began his war service as surgical specialist RAMC in the 6th Airborne Division. In 1947 he became surgeon to the Royal Free Hospital, specialising in gastroenterology. He was also general surgeon to the Royal National Nose, Ear and Throat and Hampstead General Hospital. He remained at the Royal Free until 1965, when he retired from surgery because of failing sight. For the next five years he did full-time research at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School relating physics to physiology. After retirement he took the MD and MChir and wrote two books, The Cardia and Hiatus Hernia and The Swollen Leg.
Son of Sir Stanley Johnson MP. Married Dorothy Margaret Dixon 1944.
Was part of the first group to relieve Belsen Concentration Camp where he caught Typhus and was soon after invalided out of the army. (Lieutenant Colonel).
Pioneered Vagotomy and other operations and made numerous physiological discoveries. Edited "Surgical Aspects of Medicine".
Father of 2 sons: David Jeremy Daintree Johnson b.1948 (artist - see www.david-johnson.co.uk ) and Richard Piers Johnson 1954-55 (memorialised on the side of same gravestone).
(additional info provided by the son of H.Johnson)
Son of Sir Stanley Johnson MP. Married Dorothy Margaret Dixon 1944.
Was part of the first group to relieve Belsen Concentration Camp where he caught Typhus and was soon after invalided out of the army. (Lieutenant Colonel).
Pioneered Vagotomy and other operations and made numerous physiological discoveries. Edited "Surgical Aspects of Medicine".
Father of 2 sons: David Jeremy Daintree Johnson b.1948 (artist - see www.david-johnson.co.uk ) and Richard Piers Johnson 1954-55 (memorialised on the side of same gravestone).
(additional info provided by the son of H.Johnson)
Surgeon, MA MD MCh FRCS. After qualifying at St Thomas's Hospital in 1936 he travelled for a while as a ship's surgeon. In 1939 he took the FRCS and was surgical registrar, later acting assistant surgeon, at St Thomas's. In 1942 he became surgical chief assistant at the London Hospital, and the following year began his war service as surgical specialist RAMC in the 6th Airborne Division. In 1947 he became surgeon to the Royal Free Hospital, specialising in gastroenterology. He was also general surgeon to the Royal National Nose, Ear and Throat and Hampstead General Hospital. He remained at the Royal Free until 1965, when he retired from surgery because of failing sight. For the next five years he did full-time research at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School relating physics to physiology. After retirement he took the MD and MChir and wrote two books, The Cardia and Hiatus Hernia and The Swollen Leg.
Son of Sir Stanley Johnson MP. Married Dorothy Margaret Dixon 1944.
Was part of the first group to relieve Belsen Concentration Camp where he caught Typhus and was soon after invalided out of the army. (Lieutenant Colonel).
Pioneered Vagotomy and other operations and made numerous physiological discoveries. Edited "Surgical Aspects of Medicine".
Father of 2 sons: David Jeremy Daintree Johnson b.1948 (artist - see www.david-johnson.co.uk ) and Richard Piers Johnson 1954-55 (memorialised on the side of same gravestone).
(additional info provided by the son of H.Johnson)
Son of Sir Stanley Johnson MP. Married Dorothy Margaret Dixon 1944.
Was part of the first group to relieve Belsen Concentration Camp where he caught Typhus and was soon after invalided out of the army. (Lieutenant Colonel).
Pioneered Vagotomy and other operations and made numerous physiological discoveries. Edited "Surgical Aspects of Medicine".
Father of 2 sons: David Jeremy Daintree Johnson b.1948 (artist - see www.david-johnson.co.uk ) and Richard Piers Johnson 1954-55 (memorialised on the side of same gravestone).
(additional info provided by the son of H.Johnson)
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