Dr George Edward Badman

Personal Details

Dr George Edward Badman MB ChB MRCS LRCP FFARCS DA

03/03/1916 to 11/05/1997

Place of birth: Kings North, Warwickshire, England

Nationality: British

CRN: 524247

Education and qualifications

General education

Medical School, Liverpool University

Primary medical qualification(s)

MB ChB, Liverpool University, 1940
MRCS (Eng.) LRCP (Lond.), 1940

Initial Fellowship and type

FFARCS by Election

Year of Fellowship

1953

Other qualification(s)

DA (RCP&S), 1947

Professional life and career

Postgraduate career

After graduation in January 1940, Badman was House Officer in Surgery at Liverpool Royal Infirmary. On 15 October 1940 he undertook an initial commission as a Flying Officer, RAF Volunteer Reserve. 

On demobilisation in 1946, he became Resident Anaesthetist at Victoria Hospital, Blackpool and he continued working there as a more senior anaesthetist. In 1953/54 he was appointed Consultant Anaesthetist at Victoria Hospital, Blackpool in which role he remained until his retirement about 1987.

Professional interests and activities

Little information currently available. Member Association of Anaesthetists.

Other biographical information

He married Olive Naylor in 1941. She predeceased Dr Badman in 1987. They had one son and two daughters: John, Gilllian and Caroline.

Outwith his medical career, in 1961 George became chairman of the Blackpool Tower Company. There appears to have been a long family association with The Blackpool Tower Company. Grandfather Alfred was chairman of The Winter Gardens in  Blackpool. The newspaper entry confirms that Dr Badman  was also a  consultant anaesthetist. The Blackpool Tower Company was bought by EMI in 1974.

Author and sources

Author:

Dr Innes Simon Chadwick

Sources and comments:

1942 Medical Directory accessed via Ancestry.com
1948, 1950, 1954, 1958 Medical Directory entries  accessed by Dr Alistair McKenzie at Edinburgh University Library.
1959 UK Medical Register accessed via Ancestry.com.
Bibliographic information accessed via Ancestry.com. and FindmyPast.com
Manchester Evening News 1961, 27 May p7. Accessed online via British Newspaper Archives and FindmyPast.
The London Gazette 12 Nov 1940. Supplement 34989 p6502.
Probate entry discovered on FindmyPast records death on 11 May 1997 in Blackpool; probate granted 20 Nov. Liverpool.