J. PATH. HAC!".-VOL 8.1 PLATE LXXXV

OBITUARY NOTICES O F DECEASED MEMBERS

EIIa flnarti ti Qhrcae 6th January 1897-18th August 1960

(PLATE LXXXV)

ELLA MARTIW HICKMAN was a student at Leeds University from 1915 to 1922; there she graduated B.Sc. in Physiology in 1918, M.Sc. in 1919 and M.B., Ch.B. in 1921. She took her M.D. in 1924 with a thesis on “ A study of fractional gastric analysis”. She was appointed demonstrator in the Leeds Pathology Department in 1922, and re- mained there till her marriage with J. D. Clucas in 1934, after which they went to live in the Isle of Man.

Unfortunately her husband died in 1938 after a long illness; she continued to live in the Island, and threw herself into numerous fields of service. She was always an ardent church worker, and was active in her parish of Rushen as well as in numerous social and welfare committees in the south of the Island. During the second World War she returned to pathology as honorary pathologist to Noble’s Hospital, Douglas, and was also appointed head of the Welfare Section of the Civil Defence Organisation of the Island, a post from which she resigned only just before her death. In 1947 she was made a Justice of the Peace, and was Chairman of the Juvenile Court in Cashletown from 1949 till her death.

With her natural propensity for hard work and her scientific training she was an invaluable member of a pathological laboratory staff in those early days before specialties were reoognised and the trained technician had become a necessity; she appeared to love routine, and certainly had plenty of it in the General Infirmary at Leeds ! She hurned her hand t o anything and never sought the lime- light. It is easy to see that all her early training stood her in good stead in the Isle of Man, where she made many friends, and gave her services unstintingly.

Her companion and friend died in 1957, and she nursed her to the end, only to discover that she herself was suffering from the same disease. In spite of a successful operation in 1957 she was never really well, though she continued her activities until she died three-and-a-half years later.

CLARA STEWART.

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