Obituary

Although it would not be true to say that the possession of a wide general knowledge is sufficient for a complete education, yet it is becoming more and more apparent that no one can consider himself well educated unless his knowledge embraces a far wider sphere than his own narrow specialty; and herein lies the value of General Knowledge tests, for they serve to remind us of our own shortcomings and perhaps encourage us to seek after real knowledge instead of mere sensation.

D. W. ROY, M.B., B.Ch., F.R.C.S., F.R.C.O.G.

D. W. Roy was one of five brothers who were at St. Peter's during the last decade of the nineteenth century. He entered the School in 1893. The following obituary appeared in the British Medical Journal:— "Mr. D. W. Roy, consulting obstetric surgeon to St. George's Hospital, died at York on November 9, aged 79. "Donald Whatley Roy was born at Appleton Roebuck, Yorkshire, on May 22, 1881, the son of the Rev. James Roy. From St. Peter's School he went on to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he was an Exhibitioner and Scholar. Having taken first-class honours in both parts of the Natural Sciences Tripos, he won a university scholarship to St. George's Hospital, London. He qualified in 1906, winning the Brodie prize for clinical surgery, graduated M.B., B.Ch. in 1907, and took the F.R.C.S. in 1909. After qualification he held a notable series of resident hospital appointments, being house-physician, housesurgeon, and obstetric registrar and tutor at St. George's, housephysician and registrar at the General Lying-in Hospital and Samaritan Free Hospital, and senior resident medical officer at the Royal Free Hospital. "During the early part of the first world war he served in the Grand Fleet as a surgeon in the R.N.V.R. and from 1917 to 1918 he was a temporary major in the R.A.M.C., serving with a surgical division at the Northampton War Hospital. "Joining the staff of St. George's Hospital in 1919 as assistant obstetric surgeon, he became in the course of years consulting obstetric surgeon to the hospital, physician to the General Lying-in Hospital, and surgeon to the Samaritan Hospital for Women, and he was also in private practice. He was a member of the Board of Advanced Studies of London University, to which he was senior examiner in obstetrics and gynaecology, and he also examined for Cambridge University, the Society of Apothecaries, and the Conjoint Board. He was elected a Foundation Fellow of the Royal College of Gynaecology in 1929. Having been secretary and vice-president of the Section of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the Royal Society of Medicine, he was

2