Bryan Nicholson Brooke

Bryan Nicholas Brooke MD, M.Chir., (21 February 1915 – 18 September 1998) was a British surgeon and pioneer of surgery for ulcerative colitis.

Biography The son of numismatist George C. Brooke, after education at Bradfield College, he matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1936. After clinical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital, he qualified MRCS in 1939 and graduated MB BChir in 1940 and MChir in 1944 from the University of Cambridge. He was elected FRCS in 1942 and was chief surgical assistant at St Bartholomew's Hospital. In 1944 he joined the RAMC and served as a lieutenant colonel in charge of a surgical division.

He received the higher MD from the University of Birmingham in 1954.

... his international reputation flourished and he was in steady demand to participate in international meetings and as a visiting professor, especially in America and Australia, where he was elected an honorary fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1977. ... He published several textbooks and numerous articles: his style and use of language were elegant and apposite. with Geoffrey Slaney:

as editor with Andrew W. Wilkinson: