Bruce Ashley Higgins

Bruce Ashley Higgins b.17 Dec 1931 d.9 Oct 2004

MB BS Adelaide(1955) MRCP(1964) MRACP(1965) FRACP(1966) FRCP(1982)

Bruce was born in Adelaide, where he went to school at St Peter's and studied at Adelaide University Medical School where he represented the university at rugby, later playing for Old Collegians.

He graduated in 1955, worked at the Royal Adelaide and the Adelaide Children's Hospital and in England worked at Bradford Royal Infirmary and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in London. He returned to Australia in 1964, became a senior visiting medical specialist in the Queen Elizabeth's department of medicine in 1966 and remained on the staff of the hospital until he retired from it in 1996.

Source: Royal (English) College of Physicians