Researching Robert Shields
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 4629 people with the Shields surname? In that year Shields was ranked number 916 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Robert means "bright fame" and is of English origin.
Records of Robert Shields on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Robert Shields and the Shields Genealogy
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Shields Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Shields family tree.
Look at Parish Records for Robert Shields at Find My Past.
Explore for the UK registered births, marriages and deaths of Robert Shields using the FreeBMD database.
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| Did you know that there are currently 9771 people with the Shields surname in the UK? Shields is now ranked number 592 for popularity in the UK. |
Shields Family Tree Databases
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Shields Forums
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Miscellaneous Shields Databases
Search the Ellis Island Database for information on Robert Shields. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Robert Shields
Robert Shields (diarist)
Robert William Shields (May 17, 1918 – October 15, 2007) was an American minister and high school English teacher who was best known for writing a diary of 37.5 million words, which chronicled every five minutes of his life from 1972 until a stroke disabled him in 1997. Shields's diary, which filled 91 boxes, was longer than those kept by the journalist Edward Robb Ellis (21 million words) and the poet Arthur Crew Inman (17 million words), and 30 times longer than that of Samuel Pepys (1.25 million words).
Source: Robert Shields (diarist), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Robert Shields (surgeon)
Sir Robert Shields (8 May 1930 – 3 October 2008) was a British surgeon and Professor of Surgery at Liverpool University.
He was born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, the son of an electrical engineer. He was educated at the John Neilson Institution, Paisley and Glasgow University.
He took a job as a house officer at Glasgow Western Infirmary and then carried out his National (Military) Service as regimental medical officer with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. He maintained his association with the Army until 1962 by serving as senior surgical specialist and medical officer with the 7th Battalion, the Argylls (TA Reserve).
After completion of his National Service in 1956, he returned to the Western Infirmary and rose steadily up through the ranks, moving in 1963 to Cardiff as senior lecturer in surgery at the Welsh National School of Medicine and consultant surgeon to the United Cardiff Hospitals and the Welsh Hospital Board. He was awarded his MD in 1965 for his paper on intestinal absorption and appointed Reader in 1969.
Later in that year of 1969, he was offered and accepted the post as Professor of Surgery at Liverpool University (with a consultant post at the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen hospitals), where he worked until his retirement. During those 30 years Shields built up the department of surgery and established an international reputation for research, teaching and clinical practice.
In 1982 he was appointed dean of the medical faculty at Liverpool University for 3 years. He also served on a number of medical committees and the editorial boards of various learned journals; he was vice-chairman of the British Journal of Surgery. He was joint editor of a number of books on medical subjects, including the Textbook of Surgery (1983).
He was knighted in the 1990 Birthday Honours and made a Deputy-lieutenant of Merseyside in 1991. In 1994 he was elected to serve as president of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh for the next 3 years. After retirement he acted as an advisor to Government on Health Service reform.
He died in 2008. He had married in 1957 Marianne Swinburne, a nursing sister at the British Military Hospital in Berlin. He left a son and 2 daughters.
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