Dr Ernest Gustave Bradbeer

Dr Ernest Gustave Bradbeer

8/3/1899 to 1988

Place of birth: Exeter

Nationality: British

CRN: 715339

Education and qualifications

General education

Hele’s School, Exeter Bristol Medial School

Primary medical qualification(s)

MRCS LRCP Bristol 1923

Initial Fellowship and type

FFARCS by election

Year of Fellowship

1948

Other qualification(s)

Unknown

Professional life and career

Postgraduate career

House Officer, Ophthalmics, Bristol Royal Infirmary Casualty Officer, Bristol Royal Infirmary General Practice, Redland, Bristol Honorary Anaesthetist, Bristol Royal Infirmary, Bristol General Hospital and Bruce Melville Wills Memorial Hospital, Bristol (1928), Consultant Anaesthetist, Bristol Royal Infirmary, Bristol General Hospital and Bruce Melville Wills Memorial Hospital, Birstol (1948)

Professional interests and activities

Head of the Department of Anaesthesia, University of Bristol Founder Member and First President of the Society of Anaesthetists of the South West Region 1947 President of the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society – 1956 (Presidential Address Published in The Medical Journal of the South West, Vol72, 1957 pages 46 – 55)

Other biographical information

Served with the Devonshire Regiment in World War I President of the Society of Devonians in Bristol A member of the Council of the Bristol Zoological Society He married Edyth Hetty Chaplin (Joy) at Trinity Chapel, Wesleyan Methodist, Bristol on 05/06/1926 He had two sons, John and Gordon. John became a surgeon His hobbies included caravanning, sailing and gardening. In retirement he acted as Doctor on board a number of Cruise Liners He died in Poole in 1988

Author and Sources

Author: Dr E Anne Thornberry

Sources and any other comments: Medical register; Medical Directory; England and Wales Birth, Marriage and Death Indexes; Western Daily Press; Bristol Medical-Chirurgical Society; obituaries and personal details provided by John Wyatt Bradbeer (son).