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Clifton RFC beat Gloucester 5-3 (see The Bristol Times & Mirror on 28th September 1903).

Death

BMJ Obituary

V. B. GREEN-ARMYTAGE, M.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.C.S.F.R.C.O.G.Colonel V. B. Green-Armytage, I.M.S. (ret.), formerly professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the Medical College, Calcutta, and later gynaecological and obstetric surgeon at the Postgraduate and West London Hospitals, died at his home in London on April 11 after a short illness. He was 78 years of age. Vivian Bartley Green-Armytage was born on August 14, 1882, the son of a solicitor. He was educated at Clifton College and the University of Bristol, going on to the Bristol Royal Infirmary for his clinical training. He qualified in 1906 and took the M.D. of Bristol in 1912, having graduated M.B., Ch.B. two years earlier. He also studied medicine inParis. After holding the post of casualty officer in Bristol Royal Infirmary he was commissioned in the Indian Medical Service in 1907, having won the Montefiore surgical medal at the Royal Army Medical College, Millbank. For several years he worked as resident surgeon in the Eden and General Hospitals, Calcutta. During the first world war he gained the Mons Star, was mentioned three times in dispatches, and in 1917 was decorated with the Croix de Chevalier, Legion of Honour (in which he was promoted officer in 1958), and the Order of the White Eagle of Serbia with crossed swords.In 1917, also, he took the M.R.C.P.He served in India for eighteen years, occupying the chair of midwifery and gynaecology at the medical college of Calcutta University and was surgeon to the Eden Hospital for Women, with its more than 100 obstetrical and gynaecologicalbeds. He came to London in 1933 to do the same in Harley Street and at Hammersmith. His work as consultant and senior gynaecologistto the West London Hospital and as a member of the obstetric and gynaecological staff of the British PostgraduateHospital, Hammersmith, was all the richer for the background of his Indian experience. He took a great part in the establishment of the British (now the Royal) College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists,

Probate

Probate was granted to Coutts & Company and Adrian Howell North Green Armytage, stockbroker. His effects were valued at £123073 (£1,883,016.90 in 2007).