J. B. Lyons

J. B. Lyons

John Benignus Lyons (22 July 1922 – 25 October 2007), better known as J. B. Lyons and widely known as Jack Lyons, was an Irish medical historian, writer, physician and professor of medicial history. He was described as "one of the foremost Irish medical writers of the twentieth century".[1]

Born in Kilkelly, County Mayo, his father was a dispensary doctor. His first school was the Kilkelly National School, followed by boarding school in Castleknock College, near Dublin. He went on to study medicine at University College Dublin. He first worked in Dublin hospitals, including Mater Hospital and the County Hospital in Castlebar, and then moved to England. He achieved the Doctor of Medicine (at the National University of Ireland) and in 1949 he was made a member of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. He then left to become a ship's doctor on a cargo liner sailing to Japan and South America. On his return to land, Lyons settled in Manchester, England, where he met, and in 1950 married, a Welsh nurse, Muriel Jones. In 1955, they and their three children, David, Kate and Jane, moved to Dalkey, just outside Dublin, and Lyons became the consultant physician at St. Michael's Hospital in Dun Laoghaire and then in 1959 became a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. In 1959, he became consultant physician at Mercer's Hospital, Dublin.

Lyons achieved a WHO fellowship to visit leading neurological centres in New York, Chicago, Minneapolis and San Francisco. He then wrote his first book, A Primer of Neurology, which was published in 1974. Soon after, he began to write fictional works using the pseudonym Michael Fitzwilliam, which were set in hospitals. He then wrote more biographies and medical history books.

His biographies included studies of Oliver St. John Gogarty (published in 1976 and 1980), a biography of Tom Kettle (1983) and of the Irish-African explorer Surgeon-Major Parke (1994). Lyons wrote much about Irish medical history and contributed chapters to other books, including Diseases in Dubliners: Tokens of Disaffection (1981)

He died aged eighty-five years.[2]

References

  1. ^ J. B. Lyons (1922–2007), Irish Journal of Medical Science, Springer London, ISSN 0021-1265 (Print), Issue Volume 177, Number 2 / June, 2008
  2. ^ J. B. Lyons (1922–2007), Irish Journal of Medical Science, Springer London, ISSN 0021-1265 (Print), Issue Volume 177, Number 2 / June, 2008

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