Family History, Pocock Chart 0400 William Agard Pocock and Margaret Amelia Elenor Dashwood

1901 Headland, Kimbolton, Bedford and Kempston, Bedford, Bedfordshire. There appears to have been a daughter a Elizabeth Clive Agard POCOCK born 12 October 1917. She is down as being born in December quarter 1917 in Lewes district. Ancestry has this down as Hampshire but I would think it should be Sussex From S.A. Medical Journal - 10th April 1954 paged 326 IN MEMORIAM William Agard Pocock, F.R.C.S. Mr. W. H. D TRUBSHAW, F.R.C.S. writes: It is with deep regret that we record the death of William Agard Pocock in his 66th year. William Pocock was born in Cape Town and educated at Cheltenham and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He qualified at St. Bartholomew's and became a Fellow in 1917. In 1914 he joined the Navy and served in H.M.S. Thunderer. He was then seconded to the R.N.A.F. at Cranwell and went on to the R.A.F. Hospital at Finchley. In 920her returned to South Africa and in 1928 became an honorary surgeon to the Johannesburg General Hospital, of which from 1943 onward he was one of the senior surgeons. At the time of his death he was a ember of the Rand Club and Chairman of the Johannesburg Country Club. Mr Pocock was a general surgeon in the widest sense of the term. He believed that all specialties had their roots in general surgery and was a firm advocate of a good basic training before branching out into specialties. As a teach he stressed the common and basic facts of surgery and will be remembered by his many students, now scattered throughout the country, with gratitude. He retained his interest in orthopedic surgery, particularly in traumatic work, and was one of the first men in the country to master the closed technique of introducing Smith-Peterson pins. During the last war Mr. Pocock introduced early post-operative rising in his ward to combat shortage of man-power and as this was only adopted generally by surgeons after the war, it seems that he was a pioneer in this form of treatment. Mr. Pocock is survived by Mrs Pocock and their daughter, to whom our profession extends profound sympathy in their deep loss. 1911 Twyford House, Beacon Road, Crowborough, Sussex. Margaret was a Masseuse with Anne H.W. MACKWOOD who is 49 born Aldbourgh, Suffolk and down as married for 2nd tIme she is Head of Nursing Home. She is married to John Charley MACKWOOD who is second on list and down as Husband a Physician Surgeon aged 25 born Colombo, Ceylon, Then there is Jenny Douglas DASHWOOD daughter aged 27 a Nurse born Kensington, London, then Margaret, then a visitor a Laura Emily ANDREWS aged 32 single Private means and then 4 patients and five servants. Looking at the Patients it is quite strange as one born Bombay, India, the next Queenstown, Ireland, the next Colombo, Ceylon and the last in England. Three of the servants come from Norfolk which again is not what I would expect in Sussex. There appears to have been a daughter a Elizabeth Clive Agard POCOCK born 12 October 1917. She is down as being born in December quarter 1917 in Lewes district. Ancestry has this down as Hampshire but I would think it should be Sussex Have found some more information for her on a family tree on Ancestry.com

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