Edward Darcy
McCrea
Male
Ireland
1895-02-07
Dublin, Ireland
1940-12-22
Worsley, Salford, Manchester, England
From "Plarr's Lives of the Fellows", a biographical register of the fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England:
"[Edward Darcy McCrea was] the eldest son of John Harris McCrea, merchant, and Jeannette Seale, his wife. He was educated at Wycliff College, Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, and at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated with a brilliant academic record in 1917, proceeding MD in 1920 and MCh in 1922. In that year he also gained the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He had been commissioned as a temporary captain, RAMC, on 30 July 1918.
"McCrea was elected assistant surgeon at Sir Patrick Dun\'s Hospital, Dublin, in 1919, but retired on moving to England in 1922. He settled at Manchester, becoming registrar of the department of urology at Salford Royal Hospital. He was elected assistant surgeon to the Hospital in June 1927, and surgeon in February 1935; throughout this period he worked with J.B. Macalpine. He took the Fellowship of the College in 1926, without being already a Member. He was also consulting surgeon to the Eccles and Patricroft Hospital, Manchester, and from 1 July 1935 consulting genito-urinary surgeon to the Infirmary at Leigh. At the time of his death he was senior honorary secretary of the section of urology in the Royal Society of Medicine.
"McCrea carried out some excellent anatomical and physiological research, in association with J.S.B. Stopford and B.A. McSwiney. He first studied the innervation of the stomach, then became interested in the musculature of the bladder, and worked at various problems in bladder physiology at the Manchester Medical School. He subsequently transferred his interest to the diseases of the male genital tract. His monograph on Diseases of the Urethra and Penis, published six months before his death, was very well received. It was intended as the first of a series on the surgery of his special subject. The specimens and notes for this work, including a rich collection on the testicle, were destroyed in the bombing of his house in which he lost his life.
"McCrea was reserved and shy, with few non-professional interests, but he was a good talker and enjoyed the company of fellow-scientists, though preferring his home and his books. He was a first-class lawn-tennis player and had represented Ireland in the Davis Cup competition. McCrea married on 25 September 1925 Edith Florence Willock, who, like him, was a medical graduate of Dublin and a Fellow (1925) of the Irish College of Surgeons. Mrs McCrea was surgeon to the Manchester Babies Hospital. She had written on anoxaemic atrophy of infants in the Quarterly Journal of Medicine, 1929, 22, 269, and was engaged on an exhaustive study of pyloric stenosis. McCrea, his wife, and their two children, a boy and a girl, were killed when a German bomb destroyed their house, The Cottage, Worsley, near Manchester, during an air-raid in December 1940."
1919 - 1928
8
33
24
1927 - Northern Lawn Tennis Association Tournament (Open)
1923 - Buxton (Amateur)
1922 - Buxton (Amateur)
1922 - East of Ireland Championships (Amateur)
1920 - County Dublin Championships (Amateur)
1920 - East of Ireland Championships (Amateur)
1920 - Irish National Championships (Amateur)
1919 - County Dublin Championships (Amateur)
Round 1
Edward Darcy McCrea 1 *
Eric Horsbrugh Porter
8-6
6-3
6-1
Round 2
Edward Darcy McCrea 1 *
Ernest Stewart Tweedy
?
Round 3
Edward Darcy McCrea 1 *
John King Maconchy
7-5
6-3
5-7
6-1
Quarterfinals
Alexander Maurice Dudley Pitt 1 *
Edward Darcy McCrea
6-3
4-6
6-2
6-1
Final
John Olliff 1 *
Edward Darcy McCrea
6-2
3-6
6-4
6-4
Round 1
Edward Darcy McCrea 1 *
John McGuire
6-0
6-1
6-1
Round 2
Edward Darcy McCrea 1 *
Gordon Mack
6-1
0-6
ret.
Round 3
Edward Darcy McCrea 1 *
Val Miley
6-4
7-9
6-1
6-3
Quarterfinals
Edward Darcy McCrea 1 *
Maurice Summerson
6-4
6-1
6-4
Semifinals
Pat Hughes 1 *
Edward Darcy McCrea
3-6
3-6
6-4
6-2
6-2
Final
Edward Darcy McCrea 1 *
Douglas Arthur Hodges
4-6
4-6
6-2
6-2
7-5
Final
Sydney Jacob 1 *
Edward Darcy McCrea
6-3
6-0
6-2
Final
Edward Darcy McCrea 1 *
Mr. Domingo
6-3
6-4
Quarterfinals
Edward Darcy McCrea 1 *
Jose de Verda
4-6
6-2
6-4
8-6
Semifinals
Manuel Alonso 1 *
Edward Darcy McCrea
6-4
6-2
6-2
Final
Edward Darcy McCrea 1 *
George S. Fletcher
6-4
6-4
Final
Edward Darcy McCrea 1 *
William G. (Bunny) Ireland
7-5
6-2
6-4
Round 1
Edward Darcy McCrea 1 *
John Frederick Stokes
6-2
2-6
7-5
6-4
Round 2
Edward Darcy McCrea 1 *
C.J. O'Reilly
6-4
8-6
6-4
Quarterfinals
Edward Darcy McCrea 1 *
Gervase William Scroope
6-2
6-3
7-5
Semifinals
Cecil Campbell 1 *
Edward Darcy McCrea
6-3
6-2
6-3
Final
Brian Norton 1 *
Edward Darcy McCrea
6-4
6-3
1-6
2-6
6-4
Round 1
Edward Darcy McCrea 1 *
Thomas Douglas Good
2-6
2-6
6-3
6-3
7-5
Round 2
Edward Darcy McCrea 1 *
Henry Weston Backhouse
6-4
6-3
6-8
6-3
Round 3
George Alan Thomas 1 *
Edward Darcy McCrea
6-1
3-6
6-4
6-4
Semifinals
Edward Darcy McCrea 1 *
Charles S. Wallis
6-1
6-0
Final
Edward Darcy McCrea 1 *
John Felix O'Connell (Jack) Miley
4-6
6-0
6-2
8-6
Semifinals
Edward Darcy McCrea 1 *
R.A.J. Maguire
6-0
6-2
Final
Edward Darcy McCrea 1 *
Val Miley
5-7
3-6
6-3
6-3
6-4
Round 1
Edward Darcy McCrea 1 *
Gordon Mack
6-3
6-4
6-1
Round 2
Cecil Campbell 1 *
Edward Darcy McCrea
3-6
6-1
6-3
6-1
Semifinals
Edward Darcy McCrea 1 *
Cecil Campbell
6-3
9-7
Final
Edward Darcy McCrea 1 *
John King Maconchy
3-6
6-0
6-1
6-0