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WELLINGTON HOSPITAL HISTORY

Gowland, Humphrey W

Humphrey Walter GOWLAND

MB ChB (NZ) 1941, FRCS (Eng) 1949, FRACS 1953

Born Dunedin 14 Dec 1917 Died Wellington 19 Feb 1981
Humphrey Gowland
Educated at Waitaki Boys’ High School
HS / HP, Wellington Hospital 1942 – 1943, and in 1946
WW2 service with the RNZAF 1943 – 1945
Surgical Registrar, Wellington Hospital 1946
Postgraduate studies in London 1947 – 1949. After getting the FRCS, he worked at All Saints Hospital, specialising in urology, under Terence Willis 1950 – 1953
Returned to Wellington in 1953, and established a specialist urology practice.
Senior Surgical Registrar, Wellington Hospital 1952 – 1953
Visiting Urologist, Wellington Hospital 1 Oct 1953 – 19 Feb 1981
Visiting MO, VD Clinic, Wellington Hospital 1953 – 1971

Obituary: NZMJ 1981 93:312, 361
photograph courtesy Don Urquhart-Hay