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Doctor Rhodes Haygarth.

Born in 1871 in Keighley, He was Superintendant at Killingbeck VAD Hospital in Leeds during WW1.

Educated at Keighley Trade and Grammar School he graduated as an M.D. from Edinburgh in 1895. He married Mary Ann Townend (born Haworth in 1870 ) in Keighley in 1899. Her father Joseph had a grocers shop and in 1881 lived at 42 Devonshire St. Keighley. He employed 6 men. Rhodes settled in Barwick in Elmet, Leeds in 1898, practising there as a G.P and "medical surgeon".until 1930 when he retired to Grange-over -Sands. Rhodes died on 27th Feb 1946 at Ulverston leaving a widow and one son ( probably John Rhodes born in 1902). His obituary is in the British Medical Journal. Registered number 10792448.

His other offices were as Medical Officer for Garforth and as an Examiner for the St. Johns Ambulance. Whilst at Edinburgh he was co-author of a book on anaesthesia now held in the Thackray Museum in Leeds (written 1894-5).

Rhodes was the eldest son of tailor Thomas Haygarth who was born in Garsdale around 1850. In 1881 Thomas was a master tailor employing 1 boy and a machinist at 43, Church Street, Keighley. His wife Martha was born in Keighley.The couple has three other children - Henry (born1872) and Frank (born 1880) who both became tailors and Elizabeth.

NB Killingbeck Military Hospital( also called the East Leeds War Hospital ) was formerly the Leeds Union Workhouse hospital and later became St. James's. During WW1 there were1900 beds and the war dead were buried at Harehills Cemetery where their names are commemorated on a screen wall- 327 servicemen. Because of the hospitals' size and the nursing staff needed there was a large nurses home in Beckett Street.