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Herbert Leith Murray

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 3, 2024
Entity authorityQ59785755 ↗
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Herbert Leith Murray FRCOG (1880–1932) was professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of Liverpool. He was on the staff of the Liverpool Maternity Hospital and the David Lewis Northern Hospital. He was a foundation fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. He served with the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve from 1909 and during the First World War and achieved the rank of Surgeon Captain.

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This entry incorporates text from “Herbert Leith Murray” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.