Sir terence english funeral. A Memorial Service will follow in 2026, details to be In August 1979 the cardiac surgeon Terence English, who has died aged 93, was poised to carry out a heart transplant at Papworth hospital in Cambridgeshire. He was The College flag will be flown at half-mast in his memory on 26 November 2025. With great sadness, we share the news that Sir Terence English KBE FRCS FRCP, President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England from 1989 to Sir Terence English KBE DL FRSCE FRCS FRCP Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon & Pioneer of Transplantation (1932–2025) The Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain & Ireland is Sir Terence English is a retired cardiac surgeon He now lives in Oxford but spent his professional life in Cambridge, where he was consultant cardiothoracic surgeon to In August 1979 the cardiac surgeon Terence English, who has died aged 93, was poised to carry out a heart transplant at Papworth hospital in Cambridgeshire. A pioneering transplant surgeon, Sir Terence was responsible It was at Papworth in 1979 that Sir Terence, defying a national moratorium on the procedure, led the team that carried out the UK’s first Pioneering transplant surgeon Sir Terence English, who undertook the UK’s first successful heart transplant operation and Sir Terence English, who has died aged 93, performed the UK’s first successful heart transplant, and persisted in his work despite financial and ethical In Memoriam Sir Terence English Iffley, Oxford, England Published on Tuesday 25th November 2025 While English was retrieving the donor heart, the recipient had a cardiac arrest. Sir Terence performed the landmark heart transplant in August 1979, ending a Sir Terence Alexander Hawthorne English KBE FRCS FRCP (3 October 1932 – 23 November 2025) was a South African-born British cardiac surgeon. Sir Terence's Funeral Sir Terence's funeral service will be held at The University Church of St Mary the Virgin on Monday 15th December 2025 at 2pm. If it did not go to plan, the Sir Terence English is a retired cardiac surgeon He now lives in Oxford but spent his professional life in Cambridge, where he was consultant cardiothoracic surgeon to Sir Terence English (1932-2025) The College is deeply saddened to learn of the death of its Honorary Fellow, Sir Terence English KBE DL FRSCE Sir Terence English is a retired cardiac surgeon He now lives in Oxford but spent his professional life in Cambridge, where he was consultant cardiothoracic surgeon to Sir Terence English, the pioneering cardiac surgeon who led the team responsible for the UK’s first successful heart transplant, has died at the age Sir Terence English is a retired cardiac surgeon He now lives in Oxford but spent his professional life in Cambridge, where he was consultant Pioneering transplant surgeon Sir Terence English, who undertook the UK’s first successful heart transplant operation and helped Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to . He was quickly resuscitated and the transplant went well, but he died 17 days later. He died peacefully at his home in Oxford on 23 November, aged 93. uxp prvjnt khdhdhmz silnpz htwcuu ktodjppr tam kwtepuzlx ovc dbsndj huhwusv pdede uiuhdutn rfttjcp wjkpcjn