Dr Harry Frederick Griffiths
Personal Details
Dr Harry Frederick Griffiths FFARCS MB BCh MRCS LRCP
29/09/1900 to 09/1989
Place of birth: Griffithstown, Monmouthshire, Wales
Nationality: British
CRN: 723664
Education and qualifications
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General education |
Blundell’s School, Devon 1911-19, winning a Prize for English. |
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Primary medical qualification(s) |
MRCS LRCP Conjoint Board, 1924 MB BCh University of Cambridge, 1927 |
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Initial Fellowship and type |
FFARCS by Election |
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Year of Fellowship |
1953 |
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Other qualification(s) |
MA University of Cambridge, 1930 DA (RCP&S) 1935 |
Professional life and career
Postgraduate career
After obtaining his medical degree Griffiths was appointed Honorary Anaesthetist at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Folkestone, Kent. During the Second World War he served in the EMS in London through 1940-42, and then as a specialist anaesthetist in the RAMC (Major), ending as Adviser in Anaesthetics to the CMF (Lieut Col). At the start of the NHS in 1948 he was appointed Consultant Anaesthetist at the Kent and Canterbury Hospitals, where he worked until his retirement in 1965.
Professional interests and activities
He used induced hypotension successfully in ENT surgery (Letter, British Medical Journal 1954; 1: 706).
Other biographical information
As a young man he enjoyed rugby, shooting and gardening, reducing to just gardening by the time he retired. He married Helen Saunders in 1930 and they had three children.
Author and sources
Author: Dr Alistair McKenzie
Sources and comments:
Dr Griffiths’ self submitted biographical college “Boulton form” dated 1988.
Qualifications confirmed in the Medical Registers.