George Grey Turner

In 1934 he was elected President of the Medical Society of London and in 1935 delivered the Bradshaw Lecture at the Royal College of Surgeons.

[1] After the war, Grey Turner was briefly famous for performing one of the earliest operations to attempt the removal of a bullet from a soldier's heart.

The bullet was never removed, but Grey Turner's surgery saved the patient's life.

in 1949, two years before his death, Grey Turner was made President of the XIII congress of the International Society of Surgeons in New Orleans.

[1] He married Alice Grey Schofield, with whom he had 3 daughters and a son, Elston Grey-Turner, also a physician.