• Born: 26 April 1877, Acton, Ealing, Middlesex, England ³
• Christened: 31 May 1877, Acton, Ealing, Middlesex, England ³
• Marriage (1): Mabel Dalton GULLAND in April 1905 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
• Died: 9 May 1960, England at age 83

   Other names for Conrad were Dr. Conrad Meredyth HINDS-HOWELL ^{1 2} and Conrad Meredyth Hinds HOWELL.^{1 2 3}

  General Notes

OBITUARY (British Medical Journal, 21 May 1960):

C. M. HINDS HOWELL, D.M., F.R.C.P.
Dr. C. M. Hinds Howell, consulting physician to St. Bartholomew's Hospital and to the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, died on May 9 after a short illness. He was 83 years of age.

Conrad Meredyth Hinds Howell was born on April 26, 1877, the son of a barrister. From Marlborough he went on to Trinity College, Oxford, with an exhibition, and, after taking a first-class in the final honour school of natural science, he gained the senior entrance scholarship to St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Continuing his brilliant academic career, he won the Kirkes and Lawrence scholarships and gold medals and the Brackenbury medical scholarship, qualified in 1902, and graduated B.M., B.Ch. in 1903. As house-physician to Sir Dyce Duckworth he developed an interest in neurology, and after working for a time as demonstrator in the physiology department at Bart's he later held the posts of registrar and pathologist at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases. These led to his being appointed assistant physician at Queen Square in 1912 and at about the same time he was elected to the staff of the Royal Northern Hospital. He resigned from the latter appointment on becoming an assistant physician at St. Bartholomew's Hospital in 1920.  He proceeded M.D. in 1908, and having taken the M.R.C.P. in 1905 be was elected F.R.C.P. in 1910. In later years he served the College as a councillor, censor, senior censor, and as treasurer, and was a representative of the College on the committee of management of the Conjoint Board, being chairman of the committee for four years. He also examined for the London University and for Oxford University.

Dr. Hinds Howell was a popular teacher, and the attendances at his lectures at Bart's were always large.  His published work was mostly on neurological subjects, and at the Annual Meeting of the B.M.A. in 1923 he was vice-president of the Section of Neurology and Psychological Medicine. During the first world war he served in the R.A.M.C. and during the second he worked in the Emergency Medical Service. He was also for some years a member of the Central Medical War Committee.

Always a keen sportsman, Hinds Howell played cricket for Marlborough, won the prize cup for rackets, and fenced for Oxford for three consecutive years, winning his matches on each occasion. He was a low-handicap golfer, a good shot, and a keen fisherman. He also found recreation in gardening and philately.

In 1903 he married Dr. Mabel Gulland, who died in 1958.  They had three sons, one of whom is a doctor.

J. M. writes: The death of " H.H.," as Dr. C. M. Hinds Howell was commonly known, will be mourned by many, especially by those who had the privilege of working with him and being taught by him. Success throughout his life was his fortunate lot. As a clinical teacher he was superb, with the ability of conveying to the students the essential facts leading to accurate diagnosis, while at the same time not forgetting the finer points in differential diagnosis. But for those who worked for him as house-physician or chiefassistant the charm of his personality was perhaps better appreciated. He was always the same, never upset, and very human in his approach to patients and junior staff, and always understanding. One incident occurred while I was his house-physician which showed his understanding. A patient whose appetite was not good was put on to a bottle
of stout twice daily, so on my night round I enjoyed the second. This came to light, and I told " H. H." the story, to which he replied, " Perhaps you were unwise, but I think I should have done the same," and that was the end of the incident.

He was, of course, primarily interested in neurology, but at the same time was an excellent general physician, always willing to learn, and he remarked on one occasion that his house-physicians always taught him something, adding, after a moment, with a twinkle in his eye, "even if it is something not to do." His treatment of trigeminal neuralgia by injection of the ganglion under anaesthesia was a technique which he developed, and at which he was very able, seldom failing to get a -complete anaesthesia and a relief of pain. This technique does not seem to have been developed elsewhere, but in his hands it was very effective.  Essentially interested in clinical rather than academic medicine, he shone best at the bedside. Indeed, his value as a teacher was such that, although he had retired from Bart's in 1937, he returned again in 1939 in the E.M.S. and taught at Hill End until 1946.

A man of great ability, who taught well and gained many distinctions, he will be greatly missed, for he was a most human and understanding physician, and, above all, a gentleman.

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  Death Notes

prob London, England

  Recorded Events in His Life

• He has conflicting birth information of 26 April 1877 and Brentford, London, Middlesex, England.

• He appeared on the 1891 England Census on 5 April 1891 in Ealing, Middlesex, England.

• He was educated at Mem. R. Coll. Surg. Eng. 1903; Lic. R. Coll. Phys. Lond. 1903 In 1903 in London, England. ² M.R.C.S. Eng., 1903; L. 1903, F. 1910, R.C.P. Lond.; D.M. U. Oxfd., 1908

• Registered: as a physician, 5 October 1903, England. ²

• He resided at 53, Queen Anne Street, Cavendish Square in London, England in 1911. ²

• He resided at 145, Harley Street in London, England in 1919. ²

• He resided at 145, Harley Street in London, England in 1927. ²

• He resided at 145, Harley Street in London, England in 1943. ²

Conrad married Mabel Dalton GULLAND, daughter of Charles GULLAND and Mary Rowland HALLEY, in April 1905 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. (Mabel Dalton GULLAND was born about 1877 in Collessie, Fifeshire, Scotland and died in 1958 in England.)