Alexander Edwin William Ada

12/11/1901 — 1969
A brief biography

Ancestors


Thomas Ada ±1710 —
Thomas Ada ±1734 —
William Ada 1767 — 1837
William Ada 1807 — 1883
William Ada 1834 — 1911
Edwin Joseph Ada 1878 —
Alexander Edwin William Ada 1901 — 1969
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1983 Letters from Frances Ada to Doreen ...
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Mary Elizabeth Baiden 1903 — 1978   Alexander Edwin William Ada 1934 — 1994   Lynda Jana Ada 1938 —  

Alexander Edwin William Ada


Son of Edwin Joseph Ada and Annie (Lucy) Corbetta. .

Born in 1901, the year King Edward VII took to the throne, and died aged sixty-seven in the seventeenth year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II  He has 4 direct descendants in the family.

A surgical first


In 1935, the first successful removal of a cancerous lung was accomplished by Drs. Henry Lyle and Alexander Ada while working at the Mount Sinai St. Luke's Hospital.

Golf and Curling

Dr Ada was an energetic, ambitious, confident and very careful surgeon. Because of this enthusiasm and skill the rest of the surgeons enjoyed working with him.

Away from the operating room he was a vigorous and gregarious extrovert who loved competitive sports, especially golf and curling. The golf pro at Saint Andrew’s club was very fond of Alex and after a playing lesson would often smile and say that Dr Ada and given him lots of good advice!

His early and untimely death from leukaemia, soon after his retirement, was a tragic loss to his many friends and patients.


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