Sir George Douglas Pinker , KCVO (6 December 1924 – 29 April 2007) was an internationally respected obstetrician and gynecologist , best known for modernizing the delivery of royal babies.
26-627: Pinker may refer to: People [ edit ] George Pinker (1924–2007), British obstetrician and gynecologist Rachel Pinker , American meteorologist Robert Pinker (1931–2021), British sociologist Steven Pinker (born 1954), Canadian-American psychologist, linguist and popular science author Susan Pinker (born 1957), Canadian developmental psychologist Bands [ edit ] Horace Pinker , American punk rock band The Pinker Tones , alternative pop band from Barcelona, Spain [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
52-734: A 273-apartment luxury accommodation complex, named "NoHo Square", and transferred the property to the nationalised Icelandic bank, Kaupthing Bank . The site was purchased by Clive Bush and Daniel Van Gelder's Exemplar Properties and Aviva Investors in July 2010. Exemplar decided against retaining either the Candy and Candy designs or the NoHo Square name, and instead appointed new architects in Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands and Sheppard Robson to prepare new designs. Following
78-524: A Chair of Biochemistry. The Middlesex Hospital closed in December 2005. The main hospital building in Mortimer Street was sold to developer Project Abbey (Guernsey) Ltd, a company controlled by Christian and Nick Candy , and was demolished in 2008. The building was used, just before it was demolished, in the film Eastern Promises . Candy and Candy failed in plans to redevelop the site into
104-595: A career in medicine. Queen Elizabeth attended the performance as patron of both the hospital and the medical school, accompanied by the two young princesses, Elizabeth and Margaret. Deciding to specialize in obstetrics, he served his National Service as a lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps in Singapore , where he did much of his specialist training under Benjamin Henry Sheares at
130-522: A public exhibition, a planning application for the proposed scheme was submitted in September 2011. Planning consent for the new development, now called Fitzroy Place , was granted in February 2012. The new development, which combines 295 homes with 240,000 sq ft of offices, including the regional headquarters for cosmetics multinational Estée Lauder , was completed in 2016. The former chapel of
156-895: A significant break with royal tradition as all prior royal births had taken place at a royal residence. In 1990, he was replaced by Marcus Setchell CVO. Pinker was appointed a CVO in 1983, and a KCVO in 1990. In the same year he authored the book 'Preparing for Pregnancy'. In 1991 he edited 'Clinical Gynecological Oncology'. He also contributed to several books - Diseases of Women by Ten Teachers (1964), Obstetrics by Ten Teachers (1964), A Short Textbook of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (1967). Pinker married former nurse Dorothy Emma Russell in London on 31 March 1951. The couple had four children: Catherine & Ian (twins), Robert and William. His wife died in 2003. Pinker enjoyed all music, but particularly opera. He became assistant concert director of Reading Symphony Orchestra , and then in 1988 vice-president of
182-570: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles George Pinker George Douglas Pinker was born on 6 December 1924 in Calcutta , India , the second son of Queenie Elizabeth née Dix and Ronald Douglas Pinker, a horticulturist who worked for Suttons Seeds for 40 years, and headed the bulb and flower department for 25 years. At the time of George's birth he ran Sutton Seeds Indian Branch in Calcutta. His older brother Kenneth Hubert
208-754: Is now Wellbeing of Women . Diana, Princess of Wales , whose two sons had been delivered by Pinker, became a patron in 1984. On 12 October 2011, the Right Reverend Vincent Nichols gave the first annual Sir George Pinker Memorial Address. In 1973 he succeeded Sir John Peel as surgeon gynaecologist to Queen Elizabeth II . The youngest person to be appointed to the post, he delivered nine royal babies: Earl of Ulster ; Lady Rose Windsor; Lady Davina Windsor ; Lord Frederick Windsor ; Lady Gabriella Windsor ; Peter Phillips ; Zara Phillips ; Prince William ; and Prince Harry . All of these births took place at St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington ,
234-634: The British Military Hospital, Singapore . Returning to civilian life at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford , in 1958 he was appointed a consultant in obstetrics and gynaecology to St. Mary's Hospital and Samaritan Hospital for Women, both of which he served for the next 31 years. While at St Mary's Hospital on May 27, 1971, he assisted in the first ever Caesarian section birth under an Epidural anaesthetic. He later also held
260-641: The London Choral Society . He was a keen skier, sailor, gardener and hill-walker. In his last years, he was disabled by Parkinson's disease and partial blindness. Pinker died in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire on 29 April 2007. A Memorial Service was held in October 2007 St Marylebone Church , London, attended by the Duchess of Gloucester and Queen Anne-Marie of Greece . In August 2008 it
286-650: The University College London Hospitals NHS Trust . The Middlesex Hospital Medical School, with a history dating back to 1746, merged with the medical school of University College London in 1987. The first Middlesex Hospital, which was named after the county of Middlesex , opened as the Middlesex Infirmary in Windmill Street in 1745. The infirmary started with 15 beds to provide medical treatment for
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338-501: The Middlesex Hospital by John Loughborough Pearson is now the only surviving building of the hospital. The chapel was completed after the architect's death under the supervision of his son, Frank, also an architect. The chapel was structurally complete by the mid-1920s; the surrounding hospital was then demolished and rebuilt around it between 1928 and 1929. The chapel was not formally opened until 1929, by which time much of
364-804: The University College and Middlesex School of Medicine (UCMSM). UCMSM itself merged with the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine in 1998 to form the UCL Medical School . The Courtauld Institute of Biochemistry of the Middlesex Hospital Medical School was opened by Samuel Courtauld in 1928, the foundation stone having been laid on 20 July 1927. Its main entrance was in Riding House Street. Courtauld also endowed
390-491: The benefactor Pyke, respectively. The large amount local construction work resulted in one-in-four admissions being due to trauma, and Percy ward became the accident ward. The foundation stone for the second Middlesex Hospital, in Mortimer Street, was laid by the hospital's president, the Earl of Northumberland , in 1755. The central block of the new hospital opened in 1757. Over the years extra wings were added but, in 1924, it
416-479: The foundation of the Middlesex Hospital), when students were 'walking the wards'. The motto of the medical school, Miseris Succurrere Disco , was provided by one of the deans, Dr William Cayley, from Virgil 's passage about Queen Dido aiding a shipwreck: Non ignara mali, miseris succurrere disco ("Not unacquainted with misfortune myself, I learn to succour the distressed"). At the establishment of
442-444: The lavish interior decoration of marbles and mosaic in a mix of Italian gothic and romanesque styles had been added, giving it the appearance it broadly retains today. The chapel is a Grade II* Listed building . The fabric of the chapel was allowed to decline in the closing decades of the Middlesex Hospital, with water ingress through the roof causing substantial damage to the fabric of the building. The chapel fabric and interior
468-613: The poor. Funding came from subscriptions and, in 1747, the hospital became the first in England to add lying-in (maternity) beds. Prior to 1773, the wards in the hospital were named as 'Mens long ward', 'Mens square ward up one pair of stairs' or 'two pairs of stairs'. Names of wards later followed after the chief nurse of each ward. Naming of wards for several governors and medical staff of the hospital began with wards Percy, Clayton, Villeneau and Pyke, named after Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland , Sir Kenrick Clayton, John Villeneau and
494-680: The position of Consulting Gynaecological Surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital ; Soho Hospital for Women; Bolingbroke Hospital, Battersea; and the Radcliffe Infirmary from 1969 to 1980. Pinker accepted an increasing involvement with the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists , serving as Honorary Treasurer, 1970–77. He was a past president of the British Fertility Society and supported
520-523: The public. After coming under the management of the Bloomsbury Health Authority in 1980, the Middlesex Hospital became associated with various specialist hospitals in the local area. In 1992 the local urology hospitals, St Paul's , St Peter's and St Philip's , were closed down with services transferred to new accommodation in the Middlesex Hospital. The Middlesex Hospital Medical School traced its origins to 1746 (a year after
546-676: The research that led to the birth in 1978 of Louise Brown , the first test-tube baby. His work at the Royal College earned him international respect amongst obstetricians and gynaecologists. In 1980 he was elected vice-president and finally President in 1987. He was President of the Royal Society of Medicine from 1992 to 1994. In 1964 he and several distinguished colleagues founded the Childbirth Research Centre. Changing its name to Birthright in 1972, it
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#1732780942636572-508: The then London University (now University College London ), the governors of the Middlesex Hospital declined permission of the former's medical students to use the wards of the Middlesex Hospital for clinical training. This refusal prompted the foundation of the North London Hospital, now University College Hospital , in 1834. The medical schools of the Middlesex Hospital and University College Hospital merged in 1987 to form
598-558: Was born in Reading on 15 September 1919. From 1928 aged four, Pinker was educated at Reading School . In 1942, he began medical training at St Mary's Hospital Medical School , Paddington, London , qualifying as a doctor in 1947. As a student in 1946, when the Music Society put on its first post-war production The Mikado , he sang one of the leading roles. He turned down a contract with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company to pursue
624-463: Was decided that the building was structurally unsound and an entirely new building would be required. The Duke of York, later King George VI , having visited the hospital on 26 June 1928 to lay the foundation stone of the new building, returned on 29 May 1935 to open the completed building. The hospital had been completely rebuilt, on the same site and in stages, without ever being closed, paid for by more than £1 million of donations from members of
650-494: Was reported that he left nearly £1.5million in his will to his four children. Middlesex Hospital Middlesex Hospital was a teaching hospital located in the Fitzrovia area of London, England. First opened as the Middlesex Infirmary in 1745 on Windmill Street, it was moved in 1757 to Mortimer Street where it remained until it was finally closed in 2005. Its staff and services were transferred to various sites within
676-478: Was subject to a £2m restoration, and the building re-endowed with maintenance funds by Exemplar Properties. Never consecrated, named or dedicated, the chapel was given the name "Fitzrovia Chapel." For nearly 100 years, four giant paintings welcomed visitors to the reception area of the Middlesex Hospital. The Acts of Mercy were painted in 1912 by Frederick Cayley Robinson , a distinctive yet elusive British artist, after being commissioned by Sir Edmund Davis, one of
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