Sir Gerard Aloysius Wall, known as Gerry Wall, was a New Zealand surgeon and politician who lived from 1920 to 1992. Born in Christchurch, he gave up law studies for medicine, graduated from the University of Otago, worked as a house surgeon and as a general practitioner on the West Coast, and then qualified as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Britain, specialising in orthopaedic and plastic surgery. Back in New Zealand he served as medical superintendent of Wairau Hospital in Blenheim from 1960 to 1969. He then entered Parliament for Labour in Porirua and became Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1985 to 1987. He was known for firmly held conservative views on abortion and homosexuality, was knighted in 1987, and afterwards worked weekends as a duty doctor at Porirua Hospital.
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was a surgeon and a politician in New Zealand
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Sir Gerard Aloysius Wall (24 January 1920
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was a surgeon and a politician in New Zealand
In Group: Neurosurgeons and Specialist Surgeons of the Head, Eye, Skin and Joints, Early life and career
specialising in orthopaedic and plastic surgery
Specialist In: Orthopedic Surgery, Early life and career
specialising in orthopaedic and plastic surgery
Specialist In: Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Early life and career
specialising in orthopaedic and plastic surgery
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