John Cedric Goligher (1912–1998) was a British surgeon who specialised in diseases of the rectum and colon and in coloproctology.
[1][2][3][4][5][6] He was "renowned worldwide"[1] and had "a national and international reputation"[5] He is considered to have been "one of the preeminent clinical investigative surgeons" of his time.
[2][5][n 1] He went on to study medicine at the University of Edinburgh where he qualified with the MB ChB degree in 1934.
[1][2][4][5][6] During World War II he worked first at St Mark's Hospital[1][2][3][4][5][6] and then for five years (from 1941) in the Royal Army Medical Corps.
[5][n 2] Goligher retired to Wetherby[4] in West Yorkshire where he established a successful private practice.