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Jones, Dudley William Carmalt
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Qualifications
BM BCh Oxon (1903) MA Oxon (1903) MRCP (1907) DM Oxon (1911) FRCP (1914) FRACP (1938) (Foundation)
Born
30/08/1874
Died
05/03/1957
Dudley William Carmalt Jones was born in London. His father was TWC Jones FRCSE, an ear, nose and throat surgeon. He was educated at Uppingham School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He then moved from classics to medicine and after graduation from St Mary’s Hospital he spent a year at the National Hospital, Queen Square. He was a keen disciple of Sir Almroth Wright and worked in his laboratory for some years in association with appointments to the Seamen’s Hospital, Greenwich and Westminister Hospital where, for a year, he was acting dean.
By the outbreak of war in 1914 Carmalt Jones stood firmly on the threshold of a successful career as a London consulting physician. However, as with so many others, war service altered the direction of his life. His ambition, nurtured in Almroth Wright’s laboratory, to develop the scope of bacteriotherapy, no longer seemed to have a valid basis and on the advice of Sir William Osler, he applied for and was appointed to the Mary Glendining Chair of Systemic Medicine in the University of Otago, being appointed and taking up his post in 1920.
In Dunedin, his research interests had, for a long time, to be set aside in favour of his teaching and hospital commitments and also of the private practice which in those days was needed to supplement a meagre university salary. Nevertheless, as time went by he became totally committed to the activities of the medical school and the University. Among these the development of the medical school library took a high place. Beyond Otago, he served in 1935 as president of the then New Zealand branch of the British Medical Association and in 1938 he was elected a foundation Fellow of The Royal Australasian College of Physicians. He was a member of the first council of the College and was vice-president for two years until 1940. He served also as honorary secretary and chairman of the then Dominion committee between 1938 and 1945.
In his clinical work and in his teaching, Carmalt Jones maintained and exemplified the older traditions based on patient and systematic history taking, clinical examination and observation. There were young men at his elbow who would know more, and he would encourage them to learn more of newer techniques and investigations but his insistence on the older methods never flagged and generations of graduates remembered and were thankful for this.
Carmalt Jones’ identification with the University and the medical school was in some ways the more complete because his wife and two children returned to live in England where he himself eventually retired. But full retirement was deliberately delayed until 1946 for, when he relinquished his chair in 1939, he gave his time generously to help maintain the clinical services at Dunedin Hospital during the next few difficult years. He eventually retired to live at Edgeware with his daughter and remained there until his death at the age of eighty-two.
A bare account of Carmalt Jones’ professional career paints a very incomplete picture of the man - more so than for most Fellows. He was a scholar, a writer and a poet. He was steeped in the lore and in a love of the countryside and of the English countryside in particular. The history, traditions and standards of the world of English and European learning and culture were dear to him and he applied his abilities and interests to good effect in his adopted country. Many of his essays, poems and sketches were published in his book
Diversions of a Professor in New Zealand
and in the same year, 1945, he had published the
Annals of the University of Otago Medical School 1875-1939
, which contained much information about the history of medicine in New Zealand and about New Zealand itself.
He was a great walker and with his wirehaired terrier, Lassie, covered most of Otago and much of the rest of the country. In his manner he may have at first seemed rather old fashioned, aloof and rather solitary: indeed, for much of his time in Dunedin he was alone. But to his patients and colleagues he was the soul of courtesy and kindness and as a host in a small gathering he could display his erudition, wit and charm. Towards the end of his life his eyesight began to fail but for so long as was possible he would visit his clubs, the Oxford Medical Graduates’ Club and the Athenaeum to which, after thirty years, he had been elected an honorary member. Dr Carmalt Jones married Miss Mabel Tottenham in 1907. Mrs Carmalt Jones died in 1955 and they had a son and a daughter.
Author
JM TWEED
References
Munk’s Roll
,
5
, 67;
Med J Aust
, 1957,
2
, 66;
NZ Med J
, 1957,
56
, 261-8; Hercus, C and Bell, G,
The Otago Medical School under the First Three Deans
, Edin, 1964, 265-9.
NOTE:
see also Dr Carmalt Jones' autobiography,
A Physician in Spite of Himself
, edited by Brian Barraclough. London: Royal Society of Medicine Press. 2009.
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May 30, 2018, 17:36 PM
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