relations death_place death_date years_active birth_place profession work_institutions birth_date article_title education name specialism
sir geoffrey ingram taylor om midhurst , england 15 april 1961 1911 to 1961 london , england surgeon university sudan college hospital , london university of khartoum , 26 january 1889 julian taylor -lrb- surgeon -rrb-
 university london college school , london university college hospital , julian taylor neurological surgery
julian taylor -lrb- surgeon -rrb-

professor julian taylor , c.b.e. , m.s. , f.r.c.s. , hon.f.r.a.c.s .
-lrb- 26 january 1889 -- 15 april 1961 -rrb- was a specialist in neurological surgery , senior surgeon at university college hospital , a former vice-president of the royal college of surgeons and later professor of surgery at the university of khartoum .
born in st. john 's wood , london , his father was the artist edward ingram taylor and his mother , margaret boole , came from a family of mathematicians -lrb- his aunt was alicia boole stott and his grandfather was george boole -rrb- .
his brother was the physicist sir geoffrey ingram taylor om .
educated at university college school and university college hospital , he qualified in 1911 , an immediate disciple of wilfred trotter , one of the pioneers in neurosurgery , graduated m.b. , b.s. , with honours in medicine in the following year and took the f.r.c.s. in 1914 .
`` at a time when his contemporaries in other military areas were becoming major generals and achieving knighthoods , taylor was a prisoner of war in changi prison camp , struggling with unspeakable conditions and lack of antiseptics and anaesthetics , with 2,500 wounded soldiers , 500 compound fractures , septicaemia , dysentery , avitaminosis , making artificial limbs out of aluminium fan blades and thomas knee-splints .
he tells the heart-rending story , without comment , in chapter 25 of the volume on ` surgery ' in the history of the second world war , united kingdom medical services .
when he came back to england from the prison camp his malnutrition was such that he broke both his arms on arrival . ''
