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Thomas Cecil Gray, CBE, KCSG, was a pioneering British anaesthetist. He was born in Liverpool in 1913 and educated at Ampleforth College in Yorkshire. At the age of 18, he joined the order of monks at the Benedictine college of Ampleforth, but after two months it became clear that this was not the vocation for him and he returned to Liverpool to pursue medicine, qualifying in 1937. He began a career in General Practice, giving anaesthetics for his patients when they needed surgery. Anaesthesia became his main interest. Returning to Liverpool University in 1947 as Reader, he established the Department of Anaesthesia, and introduced tubocurarine with mechanical lung ventilation. This became known as the ‘Liverpool technique’, based on the triad of unconsciousness, analgesia and muscle relaxation, with a markedly lower complication rate than deep inhalational anaesthesia.
Gray was appointed CBE in 1976 and in 1982 was honoured by Pope John Paul II with the membership of the Order of St Gregory the Great as a Knight Commander. In 2007 the Liverpool Echo included him in its list of the 800 greatest Liverpudlians, as part of Liverpool's 800th anniversary.
Royal College of Anaesthetists
London
Title
Thomas Cecil Gray, Dean of the Faculty of Anaesthetists (1964–1967)
Date
c.1967
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 69 x W 49 cm
Accession number
RCOA50
Work type
Painting
