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Rodney Maingot was born on February 27th 1893 in Cascade,
Trinidad. At the age of 8 he migrated to England, where he
obtained all his academic training. He studied at Upshaw
College, Durham and at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in London.
He qualified as a doctor in 1916 with the Membership of the
Royal College of Surgeons, England (MRCS) and the Licentiate of
the Royal College of Physicians (LRCP). At St. Bartholomew’s he
worked as a house surgeon and surgical registrar and obtained
the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons, England (FRCS)
in 1920. In the midst of attaining these qualifications, Dr.
Maingot also served in the First World War, 1914-1918.
He was a regional consultant in the Emergency Medical Service
during World War II and fellow of the surgical section of the
Royal Society of Medicine. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of
the British Journal of Clinical Practice and apart from his
best-known publication, Maingot also contributed to a two-volume
surgical reference “Postgraduate Surgery”.
Maingot was elected the Chief Surgeon at the Royal Free Hospital
and was considered an expert in surgery of the gall bladder. His
popularity as a skilled surgeon was witnessed through the number
of young surgeons that came to see him operate at the Royal
Waterloo and Southend Hospitals in London where he served as a
consulting surgeon. As a result, these hospitals became key
centres for postgraduate instruction in surgery and his
reputation as a surgeon grew outside of London.
During his career, he was also a visiting specialist and
professor at institutions outside of the UK. They included Ohio
State Medical School, Mount Sinai Hospital in Miami and Maadi
Hospital in Cairo. In 1976, Dr. Maingot was awarded his
homeland’s highest honour, the Trinity Cross.
After his death in England on January 3rd 1982, his family
established the Maingot Charitable Trust in his honour. The
Trust assists young doctors from Trinidad and Tobago to qualify
for the FRCS by providing a scholarship grant. The Trust has to
date already assisted some 22 scholars over the past 21 years
since its inception.
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