Victor Tindall, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Victor Tindall

British rugby union player

Date of Birth: 01-Aug-1928

Date of Death: 11-Jun-2010

Profession: gynaecologist, rugby union player

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Victor Tindall

  • Victor Ronald Tindall (1 August 1928 – 11 June 2010) was an English rugby union international, obstetrician and gynaecologist.
  • He was born in Kingsclere, Hampshire, but moved to Cheshire where he attended Wallasey Grammar School.
  • He was a successful athlete, and played rugby for Cheshire while still at school.
  • He studied at Liverpool University, and played for the university and for New Brighton.
  • He also played for the Barbarians, before making four appearances as a wing for the England national team in the Five Nations Championship between January and March 1951.
  • He later played rugby for the RAF, but his career ended prematurely after a neck injury.
  • He continued to be involved with the sport as a referee and in an administrative capacity.He qualified MB ChB from Liverpool in 1953, and went on to acquire a diploma in obstetrics.
  • After completing National Service in the RAF, he returned to Liverpool University's physiology department for further training in gynaecology and obstetrics, becoming a member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) and a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1961.
  • He later became senior vice-president of the RCOG.He moved to Cardiff as a senior lecturer at the Welsh National School of Medicine in 1965, and in 1967 became a consultant at the University Hospital.
  • In 1972, he moved to become professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the Victoria University in Manchester.
  • He maintained a gynaecological surgical practice, and retained special interests in radical pelvic surgery and in maternal mortality.
  • He also published work on liver disease in pregnancy, and in 1987 edited the fifth edition of the textbook Principles of Gynaecology, as well as writing several other publications.
  • He became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, and was appointed CBE in 1992.He married in 1955 and had two children.
  • He died in 2010 at the age of 81.

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