Papers of Pillers and Hey Groves
TitlePapers of Pillers and Hey Groves
ReferenceMS0529
Level of descriptionfonds
Date1918-1944
Creator Dulcibel Mary Pillers, 1892-1961, medical illustrator, Ernest William Hey Groves, 1872-1944, surgeon
Admin./ biographical history, Dulcibel Mary Pillers was a Medical Illustrator and a founding member of the Medical Artists' Association of Great Britain (MAA). She graduated from the Kensington Government School of Art in Bristol with an Art Class Teachers' Certificate. At the end of the First World War, she was a medical illustrator to the orthopaedic surgeon, Ernest William Hey Groves at Beaufort War Hospital in Stapleton, Bristol.
Ernest William Hey Groves was a Orthopaedic Surgeon and a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (1905). In 1914 he was a Hunterian Professor at RCS England, lecturing on "Operative treatment of fractures". In 1916, he won the Jacksonian Prize with his essay on "Methods and results of transplantation of bone in repair of defects caused by injury or disease", which was printed in the British Journal of Surgery. He was also elected to the Council in 1918 and was on the Court of Examiners from 1928 to 1934. He was Vice-President in 1928 to 1929. He delivered the Hunterian Oration in 1930 and the Moynihan Lecture in 1940. He was also Bradshaw Lecturer in 1926, speaking on "The reconstructive surgery of the hip".
He was commissioned as a Captain in RAMC (T) on 23 March 1917 during the First World War. He led the surgical division of the 21st General Hospital, Bristol. He then served for a year in Egypt where he developed the "Hey Groves splint". He was appointed next to take charge of a military orthopaedic centre at Fishponds, Bristol, and then at the Bristol Municipal Hospital, Southmead, Westbury-on-Trym. After the armistice, he led the military orthopaedic unit at the Ministry of Pensions Hospital at Bath. He also organized the West Country Orthopaedic Unit. He was also orthopaedic surgeon to Lord Mayor Treloar's Hospital at Alton, Hants. In 1922 he was called to the Chair of Surgery at Bristol and gave clinical teaching rounds on alternate weeks at the General Hospital and the Royal Infirmary. This had recently been co-ordinated as components of the "Bristol Royal Hospital" and were both under the professor's charge for teaching purposes. In 1933, at the centenary of the Bristol Medical School, he was given an honorary Doctorate of Science by the University, while serving as president of the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society 1932-33. In 1928-29 he had been president of the British Orthopaedic Association, and in 1929-30 of the Association of Surgeons.
For more information on Groves' life and career, please visit his profile on Plarr's Lives of the Fellows: https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/lives/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ASSET$002f0$002fSD_ASSET:376481/one?qu=groves&qf=ARCHIVES_PERSON_NAME%09Personal+Name%09Groves%2C+Ernest+William+Hey%09Groves%2C+Ernest+William+Hey
Ernest William Hey Groves was a Orthopaedic Surgeon and a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (1905). In 1914 he was a Hunterian Professor at RCS England, lecturing on "Operative treatment of fractures". In 1916, he won the Jacksonian Prize with his essay on "Methods and results of transplantation of bone in repair of defects caused by injury or disease", which was printed in the British Journal of Surgery. He was also elected to the Council in 1918 and was on the Court of Examiners from 1928 to 1934. He was Vice-President in 1928 to 1929. He delivered the Hunterian Oration in 1930 and the Moynihan Lecture in 1940. He was also Bradshaw Lecturer in 1926, speaking on "The reconstructive surgery of the hip".
He was commissioned as a Captain in RAMC (T) on 23 March 1917 during the First World War. He led the surgical division of the 21st General Hospital, Bristol. He then served for a year in Egypt where he developed the "Hey Groves splint". He was appointed next to take charge of a military orthopaedic centre at Fishponds, Bristol, and then at the Bristol Municipal Hospital, Southmead, Westbury-on-Trym. After the armistice, he led the military orthopaedic unit at the Ministry of Pensions Hospital at Bath. He also organized the West Country Orthopaedic Unit. He was also orthopaedic surgeon to Lord Mayor Treloar's Hospital at Alton, Hants. In 1922 he was called to the Chair of Surgery at Bristol and gave clinical teaching rounds on alternate weeks at the General Hospital and the Royal Infirmary. This had recently been co-ordinated as components of the "Bristol Royal Hospital" and were both under the professor's charge for teaching purposes. In 1933, at the centenary of the Bristol Medical School, he was given an honorary Doctorate of Science by the University, while serving as president of the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society 1932-33. In 1928-29 he had been president of the British Orthopaedic Association, and in 1929-30 of the Association of Surgeons.
For more information on Groves' life and career, please visit his profile on Plarr's Lives of the Fellows: https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/lives/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ASSET$002f0$002fSD_ASSET:376481/one?qu=groves&qf=ARCHIVES_PERSON_NAME%09Personal+Name%09Groves%2C+Ernest+William+Hey%09Groves%2C+Ernest+William+Hey
Scope and ContentComprises line drawings, watercolours, radiographs and other printed matter relating to bone graft operations conducted by Ernest William Hey Groves at Bristol General Hospital. The majority of the injuries seen by Hey Groves and documented in this collection were caused by gunshot wounds during the First World War. The illustrations were made by Dulcie Pillers.
Extent1 box + 1 file
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Related objectsRCS-SCH/1/3/96
SubjectOrthopaedics, Bones, Fractures, Radiography, Illustration, Radiography, Bristol, UK
