Dr Samuel Carden
Personal Details
Dr Samuel Carden MRCS LRCP MBBS FFARCS DA DPM
Other family name: Carnofsky - Changed to Carden 1928
25/06/1903 to 25/11/1996
Place of birth: Pierston, Cape Province, South Africa
Nationality: South African
Other nationalities: Possibly naturalised to British. Not cofirmed
CRN: 495866
Education and qualifications
| General education | Medical School 1921-26, first at University of Cape Town (where he excelled at soccer), followed by University of Durham, and Guy’s Hospital, London |
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| Primary medical qualification(s) | MRCS Eng., LRCP Lond., 1926 MBBS, University of Durham, 1926. |
| Initial Fellowship and type | FFARCS by Election |
| Year of Fellowship | 1953 |
| Other qualification(s) | Diploma Psychiatric Medicine (DPM) 1932 DA (RCP&S), 1940. |
Professional life and career
Postgraduate career
Following graduation Carden undertook his House Physician and Surgical posts at Guy’s Hospital London. Next he took up psychiatry, becoming an Assistant Medical Officer to the London County Council Hospital Service – based at Banstead Mental Hospital, Sutton, Surrey. He then changed to General Practice in Wandsworth, London before another change of career direction, his appointment as an honorary specialist anaesthetist to Putney Hospital in 1940. By 1943 he was also Honorary Anaesthetist to Bolingbroke Hospital and University College Hospital Dental School, and Anaesthetist to Queen Mary’s Hospital, Roehampton (Ministry of Pensions), plus Honorary Consultant Anaesthetist to Surbiton Hospital, Surrey. From 1943 to 1947 he served as Specialist Anaesthetist in the Emergency Medical Service (EMS). In 1950 he was appointed as a Consultant Anaesthetist at Putney Hospital, and University College Hospital Dental School. In the 1960s he also had anaesthetic duties at St Giles’ and St Olave’s Hospitals in London. In 1970 he was designated Consultant Anaesthetist Emeritus of Guy’s and Putney Hospital. According to the author of his short obituary, Carden also developed an extensive private anaesthesia practice from his home in Portman Square, offering a 24 hour service.
Professional interests and activities
In 1944 he published in the BMJ on the interaction of trilene and soda-lime to form toxic oxidation products. He was a member of the Association of Anaesthetists and of the British Medical Association. In the 1960s he was a Member of Council in the Section of Anaesthetics of the Royal Society of Medicine.
Other biographical information
The son of a Lithuanian merchant, Samuel married Lillian Drummond, a nurse, in 1934 and they had a daughter born in 1937. He was not a man for hobbies, but he took a keen interest in the Stock Exchange. Predeceased by his wife in 1988, he died eight years later at the age of 93, as a consequence of a fractured femur - survived by his daughter, two grandsons and three great grandchildren.
Author and sources
Author:
Dr Innes Simon Chadwick
Sources and comments:
Bibliographic information accessed online Ancestry.com.
The UK Medical Registers accessed on line various 1921-1955 at Ancestry.com
Staunton MD. Obituary Samuel Carden. BMJ 1997; 314: 1487.
Medical Directories 1930 – 1970. ,
The London Gazette 1928 p6324, accessed online Findmypast: Notice of change of name.