Cargill, Lionel Vernon

First name(s)

Lionel Vernon

Surname

Cargill

Position(s) held at King's College London

• Assistant Demonstrator of Physiology (1888)
• Ophthalmic Clinical Assistant to Professor McHardy (1890-[1899])
• House Surgeon at King's College Hospital (1892)
• Sambrooke Surgical Registrar at King's College Hospital (1894)
• Assistant Ophthalmic Surgeon at King's College Hospital (1899-1931)
• Emeritus Lecturer of Ophthalmic Surgery (1931-)
• Chairman of the Board of Governors of King's College School
• Treasurer, King’s College Hospital War Memorial
• President, Clubs and Societies Union (-1926)
• President of the Medical Society
• Emerititus Lecturer on Opthalmology in the Medical School and Consulting Opthalmic Surgeon to the Hospital (upon retirement, 1931) ^{Ref: *1 *2}

Education & professional details

School, college and/or university attended

• King’s College School
• University of London
• King’s College London (Medical Department) ^{Ref: *1 *2}

Qualifications

• Preliminary Scientific and Intermediate BSc (1884)
• Sambrooke Exhibition [Award[ (1885)
• Junior Medical Scholarship, Carter Gold Medal and Prize for Botany, Leathes Prize, Barry Prize for Divinity, King’s College London (Medical Department) (1886)
• Second Year Scholarship, Prize for Materia Medica King’s College London (Medical Department) (1887)
• Intermediate M.B (1887) King’s College London (Medical Department) ^{Ref: *1 *2}
• Todd Prize for Clinical Medicine and additional prizes for Obstetrics, Pathological Anatomy and Forensic Medicine (1888)
• L.S.A, M.R.C.S, L.R.C.P (1890)
• Senior Scholar and Sir Joseph Lister Prize (1889)
• F.R.C.S. (1892)

Position(s) held (non King's College London)

• Clinical Assistant, Royal Eye Hospital
• House Surgeon and Surgical Registrar, Royal Eye Hospital (1893)
• Assistant Surgeon, Royal Eye Hospital (1896)
• Opthalmic Surgeon, Seamen’s Hospital, Greenwich (1889)
• Opthalmic Surgeon,, Imperial Yeomanry Hospital, South Aftica (1900)
• Honorary Consultant for Diseases of the Eye (London Military Hospitals) (1914)
• in charge of Opthalmic beds, Fourth London General Hospital (1914)
• Examiner for Diploma in Opthalmology, Oxford University ^{Ref: *1 *2}

Professional activities

• Member of the Council, Opthalmological Society
• Member of Oxford Opthalmological Congress
• Chairman of the Council of the Royal Eye Hospital (1931)
• Member of the Court of the Society of Apothecaries (1931) and Master (1939-1940) ^{Ref: *1 *2}
• Vice-president and treasurer of the Board of Registration of Medical Auxiliaries ^{Ref: *1}

Publications

select publications

• With S. Mayou. "A case of miliary tuberculosis in adults" Trans Ophthalmol Soc 26 (1906): 101-107.
• With S. Mayou. "A case of flat sarcoma of the choroid" Trans Ophthalmol Soc 27 (1907): 149-155.
• "Leber's Disease and Allied Conditions" Ophthalmoscope, x (1912): 62.

Personal details

Date of birth

27 June 1866

Date of death

13 December 1955

Place of death

Highlands Heath, Putney

Obituary

“Lionel Vernon Cargill”, Obit., Br J Ophthalmol. 1956 Feb; 40(2): 127–128.

Family details

Married to Emma Sherwood on 1 Mar 1897, ^{Ref: *3} with whom he had three daughters. ^Ref:*1