Leslie Le Quesne obituary

professor of surgery at the Middlesex Hospital

surgeons in the 1960s tend to worry about the technical operations rather than its outcome. The bitter joke - "the operation was a success but the patient did not survive" - ??was not entirely unjustified. Leslie Le Quesne, who died aged 91, was part of a new generation of surgeons inspired by the work of pioneers such as the American Francis Moore, who began to question the functional aspects of his art: how to prepare a patient for surgical strike, to monitor the physiological changes and, in particular, assessing and treating post-operative metabolic response.

All this required the knowledge of physiology and biochemistry. Besides being a fast and meticulous surgeon, Le Quesne was a pioneer in this field, and his ministry has issued a series of major studies on the acid-base balance, fluid balance and the system response endocrine. Much of this work was reported at the Society of Surgical Research (now the Society of Surgery Academic and Research), which was founded by David Patey, and Le Quesne became president, and was published in the British Journal of Surgery (BJS), a magazine that was essentially parochial, consisting of case reports and short limited largely to a British audience.

When Le Quesne was appointed chairman of the editorial board, its character has changed and has become the largest newspaper BJS clinical research and outside the United States. Surgical science kits to record their work in English, the lingua franca of medicine, but were excluded from American magazines tend to ignore the contributions from abroad. Le Quesne reputation as a scientist and teacher of students increased, and honors followed, including the dean of the faculty of London University of Medicine and Chief Justice of the examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons.

Le Quesne was born in London. His father, CT Le Quesne, was a prominent lawyer from New Jersey. His Channel Islands heritage inspired her love of things nautical and sea, but its extremely defective vision (later corrected by a corneal transplant) rendered him unfit for service in the Royal Navy when war broke out in 1939.

• After leaving Exeter College, Oxford, began clinical trials at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, where his maternal grandfather, Sir Alfred Pearce Gould, was the chief surgeon. After attending an early return to Middlesex, where he spent the rest of his career. He obtained his FRCS in 1947 and became a consultant surgeon and assistant to the university department of surgery, led by Patey. Patey When he retired in 1964, was appointed head of department and professor of surgery.

In 1969, he married Pamela ("Paddy") Fullerton, an eminent scientist neurological. The couple bought a house in Eton Villas, north of Regent Park in London, where he liked to entertain, with students and members of the department. The birth of his son, Thomas and William, made the extra happiness. The family bought a cottage in Exmoor, where they shared their love of fishing. Le Quesne has always been a big fan of Nelson, had a collection of memories of Nelson and is an authority on his fatal injuries at Trafalgar. He was instrumental in restoring the unkempt grave of Mrs. Nelson on Exmouth.

was appointed medical director of the State Office of Scholarships, pro-rector of the University of London and in 1993, CBE. But these happy years were interrupted by the death of 1999 paddy of breast cancer. The house was sold Eton Villas, Le Quesne and moved into a small flat in Belsize Park nearby. Undeterred by age, which raised £ 150,000 to find a position as visiting professor of medicine at University College Hospital, to match the chair of surgery at Middlesex created in memory of his grandfather, Sir Alfred Pearce Gould. He is survived by her children and five grandchildren.

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