Robert Wallace Nevin (1907 - 20 December 1980) was an English surgeon.
Life
editBorn in Burton-on-Trent to a general practitioner and his wife, he studied at Clifton College, Emmanuel College, Cambridge and from 1929 to 1933 St Thomas's Hospital Medical School.[1] He joined the Royal Army Medical Corps on the outbreak of the Second World War and was evacuated from Dunkirk before serving in the Middle East and Yugoslavia.[1] He joined St Thomas's Hospital's surgical staff on demob and remained there for the rest of his life, becoming dean of its medical school from 1957 to 1967.[1]
He married Audrey Spencer Leeson, daughter of Spencer Leeson, Bishop of Peterborough.[1] He was also examiner at Oxford, Cambridge, London and Glasgow universities and at the Royal College of Surgeons of England and during 1947 Hunterian Professor.[1] From 1957 to 1978 he was Chief Surgeon of the Metropolitan Police.[2][1]