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| honorific_suffix = MD FRCP DM

| birth_date = 1885| death_date = 1968| address = Bloomsbury House Club, Cartwright Gardens, Tavistock Square, W.<br />3 Buckingham Crescent, Victoria Road, Manchester [1917]<br />c/o J.H. Burrows, Solbys, Hadleigh, nr Southend-on-Sea, Essex [1925]<br />Commonwealth Dept. of Medicine, Spring Street, Melbourne, Australia [1927]<br />Commonwealth Dept. of Health, Canberra, Australia [1929]<br />Toorak, Bromley Common, Bromley, Kent [1931]<br />3 Upper Wimpole Street, W1 [1935]<br />39 Hope Street, Pymble, Sydney, NSW [1949]<br />1 Wickham Crescent, Red Hill, Canberra, ACT [1955]| occupation = medical

| elected_AI = 1913.04.25

| membership = ordinary fellow- life

| clubs = Bloomsbury House Club| societies = Royal College of Physicians

May or may not be him??b.1 December 1885 d.14 October 1968<br />Arthur Richard Burrows MRCS LRCP(1907) MB BS Lond(1910) MD(1913) DMRE Cantab(1925) MRCP(1882-19471927) FRCP(A. R. 1945)<br />Arthur Burrows or "Uncle Arthur" as he was known to listeners) was one born at Southend-on-Sea, the son of the earliest employees proprietor of a local paper The Southend Standard. He was educated in Southend and became a student at the British Broadcasting Company and London Hospital in 1903. After qualification, one of his earlier appointments was clinical assistant to the first Skin Department and subsequently he spent some months at a skin clinic in Bern. Returning to hold London he worked at the position of Director of ProgrammesLondon Radium Institute. His interest in radiology continued throughout his life. Burrows In 1914 he was previously a journalist appointed to the Holt Radium Institute in Manchester and he also became Physician to the Christie Hospital. After ten years in Manchester he developed a keen wireless enthusiastblood dyscrasia and returned to Bern. Prior As the condition of his blood did not improve he took a sea voyage to joining South Africa where he was offered a radiotherapy appointment which he refused. He visited Australia and New Zealand and by the BBC time he returned to England his blood condition had improved. In 1927 he was accepted an offer to return to Australia to organize radium therapy. He became Adviser in charge Radium and Cancer to the Australian Government and Honorary Physician to the Queanbeyan District Hospital, Canberra. He became a Member of the original experimental transmissions from Marconi House, Royal Society of Australia and a Fellow of the first 2LO stationRoyal Anthropological Institute.<br />Arthur After three years in Australia he returned to England and worked again in the Skin Department of the London Hospital. He was elected Assistant Physician to the Department on 6 December, 1933. During the second world war, while O’Donovan served in the Army, Burrows took charge of the Department. He was a man also Consultant Dermatologist to the Emergency Medical Service. He was Secretary of the Dermatological Section of the Royal Society of several British broadcasting 'firsts':Medicine from 1944 to 1946. <br />· At 6pm on 14 November 1922Burrows resigned from the London Hospital in 1947, as he read also did from his other appointments - as Physician to the BBC's first-everLondon Skin Hospital in Fitzroy Square, on-air news bulletinand as Consultant in Dermatology to the Southend General Hospital and to the West London Hospital. Subsequently he returned to Australia where he continued to practise as a consultant in dermatology until ill health forced him to give up. He died in Canberra.· [1] <br />· At 5pm As often becomes the short of stature, Arthur Burrows was conscious of it even to the point of regarding it as a disability, if not a deformity, although he made merry of his baldness and was fond of reciting instances when patients sought his help as a dermatologist to cure their own baldness; on 24 December 1922these occasions he was able to shift his own embarrassment on to the patient. He was a ready wit, full of fun, and at times mischievous. Thus, when he was a young casualty officer at the London Hospital and perplexed over the diagnosis of a patient’s illness, he played Father Christmas in referred him for an opinion by a physician to the Outpatients’ department, labelling the play 'condition as ‘Brown’s Disease’. The Truth About Father Christmas' - considered answer came back that ‘it could well be’. He read widely and his general knowledge was profound. Should uncertainty cloud any part of a discussion he would instantly hie to be consult a volume of the first official broadcast British Encyclopaedia. He was happy at carpentry, and in his work-shed he made several elegant units of a radio dramafurniture. <br />· He was steeped in the affairs of Essex, a county where his father had chaired the Council for many years. A brother, Sir Roland Burrows, was an eminent barrister, while two other brothers conducted the affairs of the Southend Standard, one of them becoming the chairman of the original BBC 'Uncles' ('Uncle newly built Southend General Hospital. It was largely due to the combined efforts of this family in their separate capacities that general practitioners who had managed the old hospital gave way to young London consultants, and it was Arthur'), who canvassed applicants to fill the posts in the first London wireless Uncle on · Children's HourHospital’s special departments.<br />Burrows began His other major contribution to medicine was the introduction of radium to Australia, where he had journeyed to recuperate from his career radium anaemia, and he instructed physicians there on the Oxford Times newspaperits application in dermatology. <br />He had no enemies, obtaining the post through the editor Claude Ripponfor he kept his friendships in constant repair. <br />Brian Russell<br />William Evans<br />[Brit.med. Burrows knew Rippon through the Oxford Camera Club; both were keen photographersJ.[2, 1968, 4, 521]<br /><br />