Wyn Beasley CNZM
Wyn had his active career as an orthopaedic surgeon, and was on the visiting staff of Wellington Hospital 1958-89. During this time he became a vice-president of RACS 1983-85.
In retirement he devoted himself to the writing of history, and his ninth book, 'Churchill : the supreme survivor' was published at October 2013. He is a regular contributor to a number of medical publications. In 2001 he was elected FRCSEng, and he was a Hunterian Professor in 2002. He was one of the group that founded the Wellington Medical History Society in 1980, and was an early president.
Talks given to WMHS previously have included:
| 1981 | Medical Heraldry |
| 1995 | John Hunter and the Antipodes |
| 1995 | Orthopaedics before the Orthopaedia |
| 1997 | The Disability of James VI and I |
| 2003 | Kipling - the College and the Critics |
| 2003 | Art and Amputation |
| 2004 | The Hand in Benediction - Experience with the Light Touch Prosthesis |
| 2005 | Churchill : A Medical History |
| 2005 | Nelson : a bicentennial account |
| 2006 | Pillars of Surgery - Looking at three Colleges |
| 2007 | Surviving Scurvy : The Life and Times of Edward Evans and Churchill at Sea |
| 2008 | Understanding James |
| 2009 | Popes to Prosthetics |
| 2009 | A year of Commemoration Charles Darwin born Feb 1809 The Origin of Species published Nov 1859 |
| 2010 | The Romantic Surgeon |
| 2011 | Weasels, Keys and Thersites |
| 2012 | The Joys of Writing History |
| 2013 | A Full Lineout of Monros |
| 2014 | The Enigma of Lord Moran |
| 2015 | Artists of the Burma Railway |
| 2016 | Dispatch from Waterloo |
| 2017 | Understanding Judas |
| 2018 | Three Men : John Hunter, James Cook, Joseph Banks |