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In 1958 he was nominated under the terms of Life
Peerage Act by the Prime Minister to a receive letters patent, which duly arrived by 8 August. He was created Lord Stopford of Fallowfield and introduced on 10 March 1959 to the House of Lords to sit as a Crossbench peer. However during early
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in memory of Lord
Stopford. It is on Oxford Road, on the corner of Ackers Street, and occupies a very large site. The former Medical Faculty Library housed within the building is now known as the Stopford Library: it is an outlying library of the
185:. The entry in the registry of births for Wigan, page 92 of volume 8c, 1888, records his birth name as John Sebastian B. Stopford, the son of Thomas Rinch Stopford, a colliery engineer, and his wife Mary (Tyrer) Stopford. He was educated at
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Stopford held a number of professional appointments during his lifetime, particularly in the field of healthcare within which he had particular experience. A selection of these appointments are below:
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alongside his lectureship in the military orthopaedic centres. This was firstly to the Second
Western General Hospital and secondly to the
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retirement he had fallen ill. Lord
Stopford never made a speech in the House, dying on 6 March 1961.
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of the medical school twice: between 1923 and 1927, and again between 1931 and 1933. He was also
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At just 31 years of age, Stopford was promoted to be professor of anatomy at the
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to receive such an accolade. He was also made
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616:"John Sebastian Bach Stopford, Baron Stopford of Fallowfield. 1888-1961"
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Deputy
Chairman, Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals
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Vice-Chairman, Interdepartmental
Committee on Medical Schools
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John
Sebastian Bach Stopford, Baron Stopford of Fallowfield
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Vice-chancellors of the
Victoria University of Manchester
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as an assistant medical officer. In 1912, he returned to
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Committee on Distinction Awards for Consultants
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Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire
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Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
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The Medical School (1972) was given the name of the
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Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
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Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
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Chairman, Universities Bureau of the British Empire
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16:British peer, physician and anatomist (1888–1961)
754:(11th supplement). 31 December 1954. p. 11.
573:The Stopford Building, University of Manchester
319:Stopford met Lily Allan while they were both
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413:Manchester Royal College of Music
295:Stopford was appointed temporary
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654:"Lord Stopford of Fallowfield"
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254:neurologist
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