Arthur Giles

Born on 22 December 1864, he received his early education at the City of London School, the Manchester Grammar School, and the Lycee, Havre.^[1] He attended Owens College, Manchester (now the Victoria University of Manchester) and qualified in medicine in 1888.^[1]

In 1898 he married May Tindall, the daughter of Albert A. Tindall, founder of the publishing house Balliere,Tindall and Cox,^[1][3] He was an active member of the Worshipful Company of Drapers.^[1]

He worked in Manchester and at the General Lying-in Hospital in London before taking up his position at the Chelsea Hospital for Women.^[1] He maintained a Harley Street office.^[4] He also held posts at the Prince of Wales Hospital, Tottenham, Sutton Hospital, Pasmore Edwards Hospital, Edward Green and the Epping Hospital.^[2] in 1909, Giles became the first Consultant Surgeon to the newly established Queen Victoria Memorial Cottage Hospital in Welwyn, a position which he held until his death in 1934.^[3]

During the First World War he served with the Royal Army Medical Corps.^[1]

In 1929, he became President of the Gynaecological and Obstetric Section of the Royal Society of Medicine.^[1]

In the early 1930s, he suffered a cerebral thrombosis. He retired in 1934 and died on 26 December 1935.^{[citation needed]}

• Moral Pathology
• A Study of the after-results of Abdominal Operations on the Pelvic Organs. Based on a series of 1,000 consecutive cases
• Menstruation and its Disorders
• The Diseases of Women: A Handbook for Students and Practitioners
• Gynaecological Diagnosis: A Manual For Students And Practitioners
• Anatomy and Physiology of the Female Generative Organs and of Pregnancy