Dr Rollin Arthur BURN MB BS FRCS [84]

   Cause of his death was Alzheimers disease.

  General Notes:

Rollin was educated at Haileybury College, then did medicine, specialising in opthalmic surgery after WW II. He met his wife Mary when she was working as a V A D in a wartime operating theatre. After they married Rollin was draughted to India and Burma
RAMC until 1945. After the war they settled in Newcastle, then moved to Wimbledon London where Rollin was a Consultant Opthalmic Surgeon at St Mary's Hospital Paddington from 1962 - 1984. He retired to Grove Mill Farmhouse Little Bealings SFK.

Burns. On May 11th Rollin Arthur Burn FRCS 1916 \endash 2001. Consultant ophthalmic surgeon at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington 1962 \endash 1984. Leaves his wife Mary and sons Michael, Julian and Robert and grandchildren Rosamond, Theodore, Christopher and Francis. Funeral services at Ipswich Crematorium, North Chapel on Monday, May 21th at 1:45 PM no flowers by request. Donations to Alzheimer's Society.
Ref: The Times 16 May 2001.

  Other Records

1. Dr Rollin Arthur Burn: Across the years.

2. Burn = Fawssett: Marriage, 1942, Newcastle.
Marriage of Rollin Burn and Mary Fawssett 1942

R to L: Evelyn Fawssett, Rev A F Alston, D Mary Fawssett bride, Rollin Burn bridegroom, ? , Angela J Fawssett, Dr Robert Burn.

Rollin married Dorothy Mary FAWSSETT [83] [MRIN: 24], daughter of Evelyn FAWSSETT [110] and Dora Gladys Oxenden ALSTON [82], in 1942 in Newcastle. (Dorothy Mary FAWSSETT [83] was born on 29 Dec 1914 in Heaton, NBL and died in Jun 2003 in Little Bealings SFK.)