WELLINGTON HOSPITAL HISTORY
Gowland, Humphrey W
Humphrey Walter GOWLANDMB 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