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[[Major (United Kingdom)|Major]] '''Sir Thomas John Carey Evans''' <small>[[Military Cross|MC]] [[FRCS]]</small> (6 June 1884 – 25 August 1947) was a Welsh surgeon who served as a doctor in the British army in India and as the first inspector of the [[Royal Postgraduate Medical School|British Postgraduate Medical School]], when the school was founded at Hammersmith Hospital, London.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Evans, Major Sir Thomas John Carey, (1884–25 Aug. 1947), late Medical Superintendent, Hammersmith Hospital; Consulting Surgeon, St Paul's Hospital for Genito-urinary Diseases |url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/display/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-225201 |access-date=2023-12-15 |website=WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO |date=2007 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U225201}}</ref><br />
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== Personal life ==<br />
Carey Evans was born in [[Blaenau Ffestiniog]] the son of Robert Davies Evans, a family doctor and Elizabeth Jones his wife. Elizabeth was the sister of Sir [[Robert Armstrong-Jones]]. He graduated from [[Cardiff University]] and went to Medical School at [[University of Glasgow|Glasgow University]] and then [[St Bartholomew's Hospital]] in [[London]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Advertising{{!}}1905-10-21{{!}}Y Rhedegydd - Welsh Newspapers |url=https://newspapers.library.wales/view/4253176/4253180 |access-date=2023-12-15 |website=newspapers.library.wales |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Evans, Sir Thomas John Carey (1884 - 1947) |url=https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/lives/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ASSET$002f0$002fSD_ASSET:376214/one?qu=%22rcs:+E004031%22&rt=false%7C%7C%7CIDENTIFIER%7C%7C%7CResource+Identifier |access-date=2023-12-15 |website=livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk}}</ref><br />
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In 1917 he married [[Olwen Carey Evans|Olwen Carey Lloyd George]], eldest daughter of the Right Honorable [[David Lloyd George]], who was serving as [[Prime minister|Prime Minister]] at the time.<ref>''Lady Olwen Carey Evans'' The Times (London, England), Monday, March 05, 1990; pg. 14; Issue 63645</ref> They had two daughters and two sons - Margaret, Eiluned, Robert and David.<ref>Sir Thomas Carey Evans." Times (London, England) 26 Aug. 1947: 6. The Times Digital Archive</ref> Eiluned was the mother of [[Margaret MacMillan]], historian and warden of St Anthony's College, Oxford. Margaret is the maternal aunt of the historian and broadcaster [[Dan Snow]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=drsallybaker.com |url=http://ww38.drsallybaker.com/tag/sir-thomas-carey-evans/ |access-date=2023-12-15 |website=ww38.drsallybaker.com}}</ref><br />
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== Military service ==<br />
He joined the 7th Battalion, the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, in 1908 as a [[lieutenant]]. On 31 July 1909 he was commissioned a lieutenant in the Indian Medical Service. In 1910 he was appointed surgical specialist in the Lucknow division. He was involved in a battle at Abor on the North East border of India between 1911 and 1912, winning the [[General Service Medal 1947|Indian General Service Medal]]. He was promoted to [[captain]] on 31 July 1912. He served as medical officer to the Mishin campaign, which explored the Tibetan border and mapped the upper course of the [[Brahmaputra River|Brahmaputra river]].<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2" /><br />
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During the [[World War I|First World War]] he served with the Indian Army at [[Gallipoli]], in [[Egypt]], and in [[Mesopotamia]], where he was a civil medical officer in [[Baghdad]] in 1917. He was awarded the [[Military Cross of Merit|Military Cross (MC)]] on 3 June 1916 and was created a ''Chevalier'' in the [[Legion of Honour|Légion d'Honneur]] on 24 October 1919. In 1920 Evans was appointed resident medical officer for the State of [[Mysore]]. He was promoted to major in the Indian Military Service in 1921. He was [[knight]]ed in 1924, and retired from the army in 1926.<ref name=":1" /><br />
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== After service ==<br />
After returning from India he worked as a doctor in London serving as a consultant surgeon at [[St Paul's Hospital, Endell Street|St Paul's Hospital]] for sexually transmitted diseases. In 1936 he was appointed the first inspector of the [[Royal Postgraduate Medical School|British Postgraduate Medical School]], when the school was founded at Hammersmith Hospital, London. During the Second World War he served as a medical major in the [[Home Guard (United Kingdom)|Home Guard]].<ref name=":0" /> He retired in 1946 and died a year later of a heart attack.<ref name=":2" /><br />
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