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Cecil Isola
“An Autobiography of a Colonial Doctor”, spans the turbulent period 1928-1956 and describes how it affected the writer, a doctor , born on his grandfather’s racecourse in Campamento, Spain on the 1...view more“An Autobiography of a Colonial Doctor”, spans the turbulent period 1928-1956 and describes how it affected the writer, a doctor , born on his grandfather’s racecourse in Campamento, Spain on the 1st March 1928, a leap year, which he missed by a short head.
By the age of one the writer’s family had moved back to Gibraltar the 1st decade of life being somewhat idyllic given that schooling was not on his calendar. At age 10 he was sent to Hodder place, the Jesuit preparatory school of Stonyhurst College, England where his great uncle, father, cousin and grandson were head-boys- a distinction that few families achieve worldwide. He was at Stonyhurst during the WW2 years.
In 1947 he entered the gates of “heaven on earth”- Trinity College Dublin where he read medicine. This was to be his new home and he graduated with a B.A. in 1951, an MB, BCH, BAO, LAHI in 1953, an M.A. in 1958 and finally many years later the M.I.C.G.
He met his future wife May Ringrose in 1952 and they were married 4 years later. They had 4 sons.
After University he held several hospital appointments in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. He worked with the Medical Research Council in tuberculosis when the disease was a worldwide scourge, returning to Gibraltar in 1956 to set up practice.
He established a 1st class general practice, became Port Health officer and was made honorary consultant to the Royal Naval Hospital. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and a numerario to the Spanish College of otolaryngologist.
He stood for election as an independent nationalist candidate and became a prolific writer with an anti-neo colonial flavour.view less