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Biography 

Graham Mellsop graduated in medicine from the University of Otago in the 1960s and subsequently did his specialty psychiatric training in Victoria, Australia. With a brief doctoral  distraction  into epidemiology and immunology at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute.  His first professorial appointment was in 1982 to  the University of Otago. Subsequent similar roles at the Universities of Melbourne and Auckland.

He is not a historian but just an observer, a researcher and  a participant  in > 50 years  of psychiatry with consultancy  experiences in many countries. In 2015 he was made a Companion of the NZ Order of Merit for his contributions to international psychiatry

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Biography 

Dr Tony Mark is a recently retired Anaesthetist who worked for 40 years at Counties Manukau DHB and in private practice in Auckland.

He spent a few years in the early 1980’s training at Westminster Hospital,  London. 

The Westminster Hospital  provided the staff and equipment for the King’s operation 30 years prior and he worked with Dr Cyril Scurr who was then a junior Anaesthetist present during the King’s operation.

Tony has an interest in medical history with a particular focus on Anaesthetic history. He is a collector of old books and original papers pertaining to early Anaesthesia.

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May 6th 2023 is the Coronation of King Charles III.

I will present details of Charles’s Grandfather King George VI,  Left Total Pneumonectomy that was performed on Sunday 23^rd September 1951 in a makeshift operating theatre in Buckingham Palace.

I will review George’s past medical history and details of the operation and its outcome.