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Denis Ebrill

Wedding of Denis Ebrill and Kate Maddocks, London, 1943.
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Courtesy of John de Courcy.

Denis Ebrill,
Denis Anthony Joseph, "Densie",
born 7 Mar 1916.
He was educ "Our Lady's Bower" convent school, Athlone, Co.Westmeath.
He was educ Crescent College, Limerick, 1926-1927.
He was educ St.George's College, Weybridge, Surrey.
Studied medicine in England. He was educ University of London, in King's College London and St George's medical college (studied at St George's Hospital). He won entrance scholarship.
He was a surgeon [NOT a dentist]. Qualified 1939. MS, FRCS.
During WW2 he was a surgical registrar at St George's Hospital, London, during The Blitz (1940-41).
Surgeon in the Emergency Medical Service.
Wing commander in the RAF, also listed as a Group Captain.

He mar 1943, Brompton Oratory, to Kate Maddocks [born UK, Kathleen, NOT Kitty, NOT Maddock].
He was posted by the RAF to the US Army 7th General Hospital in Nocton, near Lincoln, Lincolnshire, to arrange the takeover from the Americans (it became RAF Nocton Hall Hospital after the war).
Consultant surgeon, Lincoln County Hospital, Lincoln, England, 1948-1981.
Specialist in rectal and paediatric surgery, neonatal work.
Chairman of the main hospital committees for many years.
They lived Lincoln.
He and his brother Adrian inherited father's shooting Lodge, Doorus House, near Kinvara, Co.Galway, prob. 1954.
They donated it to An Oige in 1961.

Denis died Lincoln, 5 Jan 1997, age 80 yrs.
See obituary in British Medical Journal, 16 August 1997. "His chief relaxation was in the countryside: he enjoyed shooting around Lincolnshire with fine guns inherited from his father and was a keen fisherman."
Kate died Norfolk, Sept 2005.
They had issue:

1. Charles Ebrill,
   mar Sue Goodwin and had issue:
   1. Stephanie Ebrill.
   2. Charlotte Ebrill.