Richard Hardaway Meade

Background

Meade, Richard Hardaway was born on May 10, 1897 in Richmond, Virginia, United States. Son of Richard H. and Nellie Prior (Atkins) Meade.

Education

Student, Virginia Military Institute, 1913-1914; student, Richmond College, 1915; Bachelor of Science, University of Virginia, 1917; Doctor of Medicine, Harvard University, 1921.

Career

Medical missionary, China, 1924-1927; assistant professor surgery, gynecology, University of Virginia, 1927-1931; associate surgery, University of Pennsylvania, 1931-1942; associate surgery, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1946-1948; attending chest surgeon, Veterans Administration Hospital., Hines, Illinois, 1946-1948; honorary consultant thoracic surgeon, Blodgett Memorial Hospital consultant, thoracic surgery, Veterans Administration Hospital., 1946-1992.

Achievements

• Richard Hardaway Meade has been listed as a noteworthy physician, surgeon by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • A History Of Thoracic Surgery

    (Book by Meade, Richard H.)

  • A History Of Thoracic Surgery

    (Book by Meade, Richard H.)

  • A History Of Thoracic Surgery by Richard H. Meade (2012-09-15)

Membership

Served from major to lieutenant colonel, Medical Corps, Army of the United States, 1942-1945. American College of Surgeons fellow. Member International Society Surgery, American Association Thoracic Surgery (secretary 1935-1947, president 1956), Raven Society, Delta Psi, Episcopalian.

Clubs: Torch, Rotary, Kent Country.

Connections

Married Mary Frazier, June 14, 1924. Children: Richard Hardaway III, Charles H. Frazier, James Gardiner, David Everard. Married Mary A. Martin, November 20, 1946.

Father:

Richard H. Meade

Mother:

Nellie Prior (Atkins) Meade

Spouse:

Mary Frazier

Spouse:

Mary A. Martin

child:

David Everard Meade

child:

Charles H. Frazier Meade

child:

Richard Hardaway III Meade

child:

James Gardiner Meade