The Lord Moynihan | |
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| Baron Moynihan | |
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| Tenure | 1929–1936 |
| Successor | Patrick Moynihan, 2nd Baron Moynihan |
| Born | Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan (1865-09-02)2 September 1865 |
| Died | 7 September 1936(1936-09-07) (aged 71) |
| Nationality | British |
| Member of theHouse of Lords Lord Temporal | |
| In office 19 March 1929 – 7 September 1936 Hereditary Peerage | |
| Succeeded by | Patrick Moynihan |
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Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan, 1st Baron Moynihan,KCMG, CB, FRCS (2 October 1865 – 7 September 1936), known asSir Berkeley Moynihan, 1st Baronet from 1922 to 1929, was a noted Britishabdominalsurgeon.
Moynihan was born inMalta in 1865, the son ofCaptainAndrew Moynihan,VC. His father died in 1867 and Moynihan moved with his mother toLeeds,Yorkshire. He was educated in Leeds and theChrist's Hospital, Newgate, London (1875–1881).[1]
After two years at theRoyal Naval School, Eltham, he returned to Leeds to study medicine at theLeeds School of Medicine. He graduatedMB BS at theUniversity of London in 1887 and joinedLeeds General Infirmary as a house surgeon. He was then successively demonstrator of anatomy in the Medical School (1893–96), assistant surgeon to the infirmary (1896), surgeon from 1906 and consulting surgeon from 1927 until his death.
In parallel with his appointment as a surgeon, Moynihan was a lecturer in surgery from 1896 to 1909, and from 1910 to 1927Professor ofClinicalSurgery (from 1925 Surgery) at theUniversity of Leeds.[1]
By the end of theGreat War Moynihan held the rank ofmajor-general in theBritish Army and had been chairman of the Army Advisory Board from 1916 and chairman of the council of consultants 1916 to 1919.
He delivered theBradshaw Lecture in 1920 and theHunterian oration in 1927. He served as President of theRoyal College of Surgeons of England from 1926 to 1932.
In 1935, a year before his death, Moynihan andDr Killick Millard had founded the British Voluntary Euthanasia Society.[2]
Moynihan's surgery onPark Square, Leeds in the city centre still stands, now used as private offices. Their former use and connection to Moynihan is marked with a Leeds Civic Societyblue plaque.
Moynihan wasknighted in 1912,[3] appointed aCompanion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1917, aKnight Commander of theOrder of St Michael & St George (KCMG) in 1918[4] and created aBaronet ofCarr Manor in 1922.[5] On 19 March 1929 he was raised to thepeerage asBaron Moynihan, ofLeeds in the County ofYork.[6]
There is a lecture theatre/conference space at Thackray Medical Museum, Leeds, named the "Moynihan Auditorium".[7]
Moynihan married Isabella Wellesley Jessop, the daughter of prominent Leeds surgeon Thomas Jessop, on 17 April 1895.[8] They had three children:[9]
Lady Moynihan died on 1 September 1936. Lord Moynihan died six days later at the age of 70 and was succeeded in the barony and baronetcy by his only son Patrick.
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| New creation | Baron Moynihan 1929–1936 | Succeeded by |
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| New creation | Baronet (of Carr Manor) 1922–1936 | Succeeded by |
