{"id":11337,"date":"2017-02-21T09:52:34","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T08:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=11337"},"modified":"2017-04-26T11:15:37","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T10:15:37","slug":"henshaw-dr-james-ene-richard","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/henshaw-dr-james-ene-richard\/","title":{"rendered":"HENSHAW, Dr. James Ene Richard"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MB, Bch, BAO, surgeon, administrator, born August 29, 1924, Calabar, Cross River State; married Caroline Nchelem Nwomadi 1958, five sons, three daughters; Education: Duke Town School (Nursery), Calabar, 1929-31, Sacred Heart School, Calabar, 1932-37, Christ the King College, Onitsha, 1938-41, Medical School, National University of Ireland (University College, Dublin), 1943-49, University of Wales Postgraduate School, Cardiff, Wales, UK, 1953; Career: Appointed Biology and History Tutor, Christ the King College, Onitsha, 194143; House Surgeon, Royal Victoria Hospital, Dover, Kent, England, and House Physician, Buckland Hospital, Dover, England and The Memorial Hospital, Darlington (Durham), 1949); appointed Medical Officer,Nigerian Government Civil Service, 1950; Medical Officer (in-charge), Ikot Ekpene General Hospital, 1950-52; Medical Officer, General Hospital, Enugu, 1952; Medical Officer (in-charge), Railway Clinic, Enugu, 1952; Medical Officer (in-charge), Colliery Hospital, Enugu, 1952; Medical Officer (rural Clinics and Materni ties), Enugu General Hospital, 1952-53; served in Meadowslea Sanatorium, Chester, England, Herefield Chest Hospital, Middle- Ssex, England, Institute of Diseases of the chest, Brompton, London, the Institute Pas teur, Paris and X-ray Studies, Stockholm, Sweden, 1953-54; Medical Officer (incharge, Tuberculosis), defunct Government of Eastern Nigeria, 1955; promoted Consult ant in Tuberculosis, 1958; promoted Senior Consultant, 1963; appointed Controller, Medical Services, defunct South-Eastern State, 1968-71; retired valuntarily from the services of Cross River State, 1972; Senior Consultant, Chestphysician in-charge, Tuber culosis Control, Ministry of Health, Rivers State (On contract), 1972-76; appointed Chairman, Cultural Centre Board, Cross River State, 1976; member, Nigerian Medi cal Council, 1970-72 and its fellow, 1972; nominated member, Constituent Assembly, 1988-89;Member, Judicial Service Commis sion, Cross River State, 1993-98;Traditional Title: Ada-Idaha Iboku, 1978; National Honour: Conferred with the Officer ofthe Order ofthe Niger, 1978; Foreign Honour: Knight of the Order of St Gregory, by His Holiness Pope Paul VI; Publications: This IsOur Chance: Play&#8217;sfrom West Africa, Uni versity Press, London, 1956; Children of The Goddess, University Press, London,1957; Medicine ForLove, University Press, Lon don, 1957; Dinnerfor Promotion, Univer sity Press, London, 1967; Enough isEnough, Ethiope Publications, Benin, 1977; ASong To Mary, Charles- Irish, Sister of Charity, Etewa Publications, 1985; including numer ous articles in national and international scholarly journals; Hobbies: Play writing, music, table tennis; Official and Home Address: Itiaba House, 4, Calabar Road, Calabar, Cross River State; Telephone: 087-222383.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,174],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-11337","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-medicine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/11337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/11337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19677,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/11337\/revisions\/19677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11337"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=11337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}