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PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 



1914 



O. H. FOWLER, M.R.c.s. 

 Born, loth August, 1840. Died, 9th August, 1914. 



In the removal by death of " The Doctor " the Club has to mourn the 

 loss of a Member and friend who was the life of every meeting he attended. 



" Mr. O. H. Fowler' was born at Kingsclere, Hants, where Mr Fowler, 

 senior, was in practice for over 30 years, removing to Cheltenham on his 

 retirement, and living there for many years. The subject of our memoir 

 received his medical and surgical training at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 

 Sir James Paget being one of his teachers. After filling one or two temporary 

 appointments, he came to Cirencester, a young man of between 26 and 27, 

 as locum tenens to the late Mr Edward Cripps, who had succeeded to the old 

 and valuable practice of the late Mr Thomas Warner, with whom Mr Cripps 

 was associated for some years before Mr Warner's retirement. Mr Cripps 

 found that he required permanent assistance, and he and Mr Fowler found 

 that their relations were so mutually satisfactory that a partnership was 

 entered into. Mr Fowler at once took a leading position in the life of the 

 town and district, for it was speedily recognised that allied to his breezy and 

 cheery inanner, which was occasionally a trifle brusque, and sometime dis- 

 concertingly outspoken, there was medical knowledge and surgical skill of 

 an unusually high order, and a courageous self-reliance which gave his patients 

 a complete confidence in him which was never misplaced. The result was that 

 his practice became such as few country doctors could boast, for all the 

 leading families of a very wide district sought his aid. On his ' at home ' 

 days his consulting room was as thronged as that of many a fashionable 



1 Extracts from the " Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard," Avigust 15, 1914. The Club is 

 indebted to the Editor of this paper for the loan of the portrait block. 



