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Jack Suchet. Jack Suchet (10 May 1908 – 9 September 2001) was an English consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist, who carried out research on the use of penicillin in the treatment of venereal disease with Sir Alexander Fleming in London. He was the father of television news journalist John Suchet and actor David Suchet.
Jul 10, 2018 · Jack Suchet (father) Date of Birth: May 10, 1908. Date of Death: September 9, 2001 (aged 93) Zodiac Sign: Taurus. Jack was a South-African born obstetrician and gynaecologist who immigrated to the United Kingdom in 1932. He carried out researches with Sir Alexander Fleming on the use of penicillin in the treatment of venereal diseases.
Suchet was born in the Paddington area of London, the son of Jack Suchet and his wife Joan Patricia (née Jarché; 1916–1992), an actress. Jack emigrated from South Africa to England in 1932, trained to be a physician at St Mary's Hospital Medical School , London , in 1933, and became an obstetrician and gynaecologist.
Nov 11, 2001 · Jack Suchet had come to England from South Africa in 1932. He did his pre-clinical studies at the University of Cape Town and then, when he had saved sufficient funds, he moved to London to do his clinical studies. He entered St Mary's Hospital Medical School in 1933 and while there won prize exams in surgery, ophthalmology, and obstetrics and ...
- Alasdair Fraser
- 2001/11/11
- BMJ. 2001 Nov 24; 323(7323): 1255.
Nov 24, 2001 · Jack Suchet. Obstetrician and gynaecologist who worked with Fleming on the role of penicillin in treating venereal disease. During the second world war Jack Suchet was initially retained at St Mary's, where he was not only registrar in the department of obstetrics but also became assistant and then director of the department of venereology. He ...
He thought that the name Suchet perhaps derived from what he thought was the Russian name, Suchedowitz. David's father Jack had never spoken about the family background. David knew that Jack was ...
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Decline and Fall: With Jack Whitehall, Douglas Hodge, Stephen Graham, David Suchet. The series sees Paul Pennyfeather as an inoffensive divinity student at Oxford University in the 1920s, who is wrongly dismissed for indecent exposure having been made the victim of a prank by The Bollinger Club.
