Carless, Albert

Title

Prof.

First name(s)

Albert

Surname

Carless

Position(s) held at King's College London

• House Surgeon at King's College Hospital (1886-1889)
• Sambrooke Surgical Registrar at King's College Hospital (1889)
• Assistant Surgeon at King's College Hospital (1889-1898)
• Teacher in Operative Surgery  (1896-)
• Demonstrator of the Principles and Practice of Surgery (1899-[1902])
• Teacher of Practical Surgery (1899-1902)
• Surgeon at King's College Hospital (1898-1919)
• Professor of Surgery, 1902-1918
• Chairman of the Medical Board (1914)
• Member of the Committee of Management, King’s College Hospital
• Fellow, King’s College, London (1908) ^{Ref: *1 *2 *3}

Education & professional details

School, college and/or university attended

• King’s College School
• King’s College, London (Medical Department) (1881) ^{Ref: *1 *2 *3}

Qualifications

• Carter Gold Medal Prize for Botany, King’s College London (Medical Department) (1882)
• Junior Scholarship, King’s College London (Medical Department) (1882)
• Second Year Scholarship, King’s College London (Medical Department) (1883)
• Senior Medical Scholarship, King’s College London (Medical Department) (1885)
• Warneford and Leathes Prizes, King’s College London (Medical Department) (1883)
• MB (1883, 1886)
• MRCS (1885)
• LSA (1885)
• BS Gold Medal (1887)
• MS Lond. Gold Medal (1888) ^{Ref: *1 *2 *3}

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

• Honorary Fellow, American College of Surgeons (1920)
• Colonel, Army Medical Service (1914-1918)
• Consulting Surgeon, Eastern Command (1914-1918)
• Honorary Medical Director of Dr. Barnardo’s Homes ^{Ref: *1}

Professional activities

• FRCS (1888)

Publications

• With William Rose, Manual of Surgery (1919) ^{Ref: *3}

Personal details

Date of birth

1861

Place of birth

Richmond, Surrey

Date of death

27 April 1936

Place of death

Worthing

Obituary

Br Med J 1936;1:963
 

Family details

Married Ada Carless. Their two sons fell in the Great War. ^{Ref: *2}

Notes

• CBE (1919) ^{Ref: *1}