Cuthbert Hilton Golding-Bird

He was the fourth child of Golding Bird, a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and pioneer of electrotherapy.

[3] Golding-Bird died of angina with asthma on 6 March 1939 at Pitfield, near Meopham, Kent, aged 90.

In retirement, he was also surgeon to the Gravesend Hospital and the Royal Deaf and Dumb School,[note 2] Margate.

[12] The dilator was an alternative to the previous practice of holding the incision open with stitches of silk thread.

[13] Another innovative procedure of which Golding-Bird was one of the pioneers was the treatment of ulcerative colitis by making an incision in the appendix through which the large intestine could be flushed.

One woman, who needed a leg amputation, requested that an older-looking, but unknown to her, more junior surgeon should do the work.

He was interested in local archaeology and wrote two books on the history of Meopham,[17] the village where he retired, one of which is still in print.