Date of birth

17 October 1897 at Timaru

Died

28 August 1989 Oxford, England

Parents

Charles Nicholson Macintosh (Mayor of Timaru 1901-02) and Lydia Beatrice Thompson

Married

1. Rosa Marjorie Henderson 1925 (Dec 1956)
2. Ann Francis (nee Manning) 1962

Education

• Waitaki Boys’ High School (Head of School)
• Guys Hospital Medical School

Military service

• Royal Scots Fusilers 1915
• Royal Flying Corps (shot down on 26 May 1917)
• Remarkable series of attempted escapes from various prisoner of war camps
• Air Commodore Royal Air Force World War II (responsibility for anaesthetic services)
• Spanish Order of Military Merit 1939
• Norwegian Order of Liberty 1946

Career

• Guys Hospital Medical School, qualifying MRCS LRCP in 1924
• Junior appointments at Guys Hospital in South America
• Trained as a Surgeon
• FRCS Ed 1927
• Dental Anaesthetic Practice
• Nuffield Chair of Anaesthetics 1937
• Developed vaporisers and other equipment which had a major impact on the practice of anaesthesia
• Trained anaesthetists from the Services
• Research into respirable atmopheres, parachute descent and life jackets
• Research into complications of anaesthesia
• Travelled giving demonstrations of simple anaesthetic techniques for primitive circumstances

Honours

• Knighted in 1955
• Henry Hill Hickman Medal of Royal Society of Medicine 1947
• John Snow Medal of the Association of Anaesthetists 1967
• Labat Prize of the American Society of Anaesthesiologists 1976
• Honorary Doctorates of Medicine
• Honorary Doctorates of Science
• Honorary Fellowships of various medical colleges

Recreation

• Golf
• Tennis
• Swimming
• Walking

Last updated: 16 Sep 2021