Epsom college 1900-1939: consultants, senior medical officers of health, and military doctors

NIGEL RIVERS (born 1922). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), L.M.S.S.A., D.P.M. (Eng.).

Nigel Rivers (born 1922) [Epsom College 1936-1940] was the son of Dr C. H. Rivers, of Redruth, Cornwall. He received his medical education at the Middlesex Hospital, and was appointed Associate Specialist (Psychiatry) at St Luke’s Hospital, Middlesbrough. He was previously an Associate Psychiatrist at St Audry’s Hospital, Woodbridge, Suffolk, a Junior Hospital Medical Officer (Psychiatry) at Clifton Hospital, York, and Registrar at Mount Vernon Hospital, Middlesex. He was a member of the Society of Clinical Psychiatrists, and of the Association of Behavioural Clinicians.

BASIL JOHN STEELE GROGONO (born 1922). M.B., B.S. (Lond.), F.R.C.S. (Eng.), F.R.C.S. (Canada), D.Obst.R.C.O.G.

Basil John Steele Grogono (born 1922) [Epsom College 1936-1939] was the son of Dr Jonathan Grogono [Epsom College 1893-1900], and brother of Dr Geoffrey Russell Steele Grogono [Epsom College 1936-1939]. He received his medical education at St Mary’s Hospital, and was appointed Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon in Canada, having previously been Chief Assistant in the Orthopaedic Department of St Thomas’s Hospital; Senior Orthopaedic Registrar at St Mary’s Hospital and the West Middlesex Hospital; Orthopaedic Registrar at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore, and Surgical Registrar at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. During the Second World War he served as a Captain in the R.A.M.C.

PETER GORDON STEWART BECKETT (born 1922). M.D., M.B., B.Ch. (Dublin), B.A.O.

Peter Gordon Stewart Beckett (born 1922) [Epsom College 1937-1939] was the son of Dr G. P. G. Beckett, of Greystones, County Wicklow, Eire. He received his medical education at Trinity College, Dublin, and was appointed Assistant Director of the Lafayette Clinic, Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and a Fellow in Psychiatry of the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA. During the Second World War he served in the R.A.M.C.

HUGH EVAN PARRY (born 1922). M.B., B.S. (Lond.), M.R.C.S. (Eng.), F.R.C.P. (Lond.), D.C.H. (Eng.).

Hugh Evan Parry (born 1922) [Epsom College 1936-1939] was the son of Dr E. I Parry, of East Sheen, Surrey. He received his medical education at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, and was appointed Consultant Physician for the Infectious Diseases Unit at Fazakerley Hospital, Liverpool, and Lecturer in Infectious Diseases at Liverpool University. He was previously Senior Registrar at the Royal Free Hospital, and Deputy Physician Superintendent at Monsall Hospital, Manchester. He was a member of the North West Epidemiological Club and the British Society for Study of Infection.

KENNETH DERWENT ALLANBY (1922-2002). M.D., B.S. (Lond.), F.R.C.P. (Lond.).

Kenneth Derwent Allanby (1922-2002) [Epsom College 1936-1940. prefect] was the son of Dr C. W. Allanby, of Haslemere, Surrey. He won an Entrance Scholarship to Guy’s Hospital, where he passed the M.B., B.S. Examination with Honours in medicine, obstetrics and gynaecology. In the University of London M.D. Examination he was awarded the Gold Medal. He was appointed Consultant Physician at the Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals (1961-1990), having previously been Senior Assistant in the Department of Medicine at Guy’s Hospital. He was an Examiner in Medicine for Cambridge University, and a Medical Examiner for the Civil Aviation Authority. “For nearly 30 years he was the voice of Peterborough medicine, developing the department into a major force, with two new hospitals to meet the needs of the rapidly expanding city. At Guy’s he acquired his affectionate nickname ‘the General,’ which in some ways encapsulated his character. Outside medicine, he maintained his love of horse racing, both as an owner and as course medical officer at Huntingdon and Leicester.”

JOHN LAWRENCE STRUAN-MARSHALL (born 1922). R.A.A.F., L.M.S.S.A.

John Lawrence Struan-Marshall (born 1922) [Epsom College 1936-1940] was the son of Dr G. S. Marshall, O.B.E. He received his medical education at St Mary’s Hospital, and was appointed Director General of Medical Services, Air Force Headquarters, Albert Park Barracks, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He was previously a Squadron-Leader in the R.A.F. (1947-1951).

JOHN SOUTHGATE (born 1922). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), M.R.C.Path.

John Southgate (born 1922) [Epsom College 1936-1941. prefect. Rugby XV] was the son of Dr H. S. Southgate, of Croydon, Surrey. He received his medical education at Guy’s Hospital, and was appointed Consultant Histo-Pathologist for the Leicester Pathological Service.

NEIL GUY PETER BUTLER (born 1923). M.B., B.S. (Lond.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), D.A. (Eng.), F.F.A.R.C.S.

Neil Guy Peter Butler (born 1923) [Epsom College 1937-1941] was the son of Dr G. G. Butler, of Goudhurst, Kent. He received his medical education at St Thomas’s Hospital, and was appointed Consultant Anaesthetist for the Exeter Clinical Area, having previously been Senior Registrar (Anaesthetics) at St Bartholomew’s Hospital and the Portsmouth Hospital Group, and Registrar (Anaesthetics) at St Bartholomew’s Hospital. He was a member of the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland.

JOHN CAMPBELL MITCHELL (1923-2003). M.D., B.S. (Lond.), M.R.C.S. (Eng.), F.R.C.P. (Lond.), F.R.C.P. (Edin.), F.R.C.P. (Canada), F.A.C.P.

John Campbell Mitchell (1923-2003) [Epsom College 1935-1940. Cricket XI. Smith-Pearse Natural History Prize] was the son of Dr G. L. Mitchell, of Redditch, Worcestershire. He received his medical education at the London Hospital, and was appointed Consultant Physician at North Bay, Ontario, Canada. He was previously a Physician at Vancouver General Hospital and the British Columbia Cancer Institute, Canada. During the Second World War he served as a Squadron Leader in the R.A.F.V.R. (1943-1945).

KENNETH MICHAEL STODDART HUME (born 1923). M.B., B.S. (Lond.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), M.D. (Lond.).

Kenneth Michael Stoddart Hume (born 1923) [Epsom College 1936-1942. prefect] was the son of Dr R. M. Hume, of Morden, Surrey. He received his medical training at Guy’s Hospital, and was appointed Consultant Chest Physician and Physiologist at the King Edward VII Sanatorium, Midhurst, Surrey. He was previously Research Assistant (Respiratory Physiology) at the Institute of Diseases of the Chest, London, and Assistant Chest Physician for the Cardiff Hospital Group.

ALEXANDER ROBERT SUTCLIFFE MAUDE (1923-1979). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.). F.F.A.R.C.S., D.A. (Eng.).

Alexander Robert Sutcliffe Maude (1923-1979) [Epsom College 1936-1941] was the son of Dr Alexander Maude, of Derby. He received his medical education at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, and was appointed Consultant Anaesthetist at Rochdale Infirmary.

JOHN RICHARD THEOBALDS (1923-2002). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), F.R.C.Psych., D.P.H. (Eng.), M.F.C.M.

John Richard Theobalds (1923-2002) [Epsom College 1938-1940] was the son of R. G. Theobalds, civil servant, of Hornsey, North London. He received his medical education at the Westminster Hospital, and was appointed Consultant Psychiatrist for the Lancaster Health Authority. He specialised in alcohol and drug-addiction therapy, and opened Harvey House as a specialised unit at Lancaster Moor Hospital. He was a founder trustee and committee member of Inward House (a residential therapeutic community for the rehabilitation of drug and solvent misusers). He did his National Service at a military hospital in Egypt. A keen sportsman, he once had a trial to play for Chelsea Football Club.

DAVID TITTERINGTON METHUEN (1923-1976). M.B., B.S. (Lond.), F.R.C.S. (Eng.), F.R.C.O.G.

David Titterington Methuen (1923-1976) [Epsom College 1937-1940] was the son of Richard Methuen, cotton merchant, of Chorlton cum Hardy, Manchester. He received his medical education at St Mary’s Hospital, and was appointed Consultant Obstetrician at the Royal Buckinghamshire and Stoke Mandeville Hospitals.

JOHN BOOTH MORRISON (1923-2004). M.B., B.S., M.D. (Lond.), D.Phys.Med.

John Booth Morrison (1923-2004) [Epsom College 1937-1941] was the son of R. P. Morrison, accountant, of Sutton, Surrey. He received his medical education at Guy’s Hospital, and was appointed Consultant Rheumatologist at the Lord Mayor Treloar Hospital, Alton; Basingstoke District Hospital, and the Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Winchester (1961-1988). He was previously Consultant in Electromyography at the Salisbury and Odstock Hospitals, Senior Registrar in Rheumatology at Guy’s Hospital. From 1948 until 1950 he served as a Captain in the R.A.M.C.

THOMAS BURNETT HOGARTH (born 1923). M.B., Ch.B. (Leeds), F.R.C.S. (Edin.).

Thomas Burnett Hogarth (born 1923) [Epsom College 1937-1939] was the son of Dr J. B. Hogarth, of Doncaster, and brother of David John Burnett Hogarth [Epsom College 1933-1936]. He received his medical education at Leeds University, and was appointed Consultant Ear, Nose and Throat Surgeon at Nottingham General Hospital, and Newark General Hospital.

PETER LUCIAN BERGER (born 1923). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), F.R.C.S. (Edin.), F.R.C.S. (Eng.).

Peter Lucian Berger (born 1923) [Epsom College 1939-1942] was the son of M. M. Berger, of Sekondi, Gold Coast (Ghana). He received his medical education at St George’s Hospital, and was appointed Consultant Surgeon at the Good Hope Hospital, West Bromwich, Sutton Coldfield, Lichfield and Tamworth Group of Hospitals, and Consultant Surgeon at the North Birmingham Hospital Group. He was a Fellow of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland.

MICHAEL HAMILTON (born 1923). O.B.E., M.D., B.S. (Lond.), F.R.C.P. (Lond.).

Michael Hamilton (born 1923) [Epsom College 1937-1940] was the son of Dr Archibald Hamilton, of Bradford, Yorkshire. He received his medical education at St Mary’s Hospital, where he gained a distinction in Pathology and Obstetrics in the M.B., B.S. Examination. He was appointed Honorary Consultant in Physical Medicine to the Mid-Essex Health Authority, and Consultant Physician to the Chelmsford Hospital Group. He was also an Honorary Lecturer in Medicine at the London Hospital Medical College.

GEORGE WALTER SCOTT (1923-2007). M.D., B.S. (Lond.), M.R.C.S. (Eng.), F.R.C.P. (Lond.).

George Walter Scott (1923-2007) [Epsom College 1940-1941] was the son of G. B. Scott, company director, of Chipstead, Surrey. He received his medical education at Guy’s Hospital, and was appointed Consultant Physician at Guy’s Hospital (from 1962). He was a Fellow of the Thoracic Society of Great Britain; a Fulbright Scholar of Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore (1957), and previously Clinical Tutor at Guy’s Hospital (1958-1962). During the Second World War he served as a Sub-Lieutenant in the Fleet Air Arm (1941-1945), and worked as a pilot in South East Asia. He was co-Author of the four-volume ‘Medical Treatment, a Textbook of Therapy’.

CLEMENT RICHARD NEVE (1923-1995). M.B., B.S. (Lond.), F.R.C.S. (Eng.).

Clement Richard Neve (1923-1995) [Epsom College 1937-1941] was the son of Dr C. T. Neve, of Croydon, Surrey. He received his medical education at Guy’s Hospital, and was appointed Consultant Urologist in British Columbia, Canada (1955-1992). In his leisure time he trained horses for three day eventing.

GUY JOSEPH LIVINGSTON HAMILTON (1923-2010). A.M., M.B., B.S. (Lond.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.).

Guy Joseph Livingstone Hamilton (1923-2010) [Epsom College 1937-1941] was the son of Charles Robert Hamilton [Epsom College 1900-1905]. He was awarded the Freer Lucas Entrance Scholarship to the Middlesex Hospital. In 1962, Guy Hamilton commenced working for the Western Australia’s Mental Health Services. He immediately set about breaking the cycle of ignorance, intolerance and prejudice, to change community attitudes to people with intellectual and other disabilities. Over his long and distinguished career, he led a revolution in the culture of care of Western Australia’s intellectually disabled and became an agent for arguably one of the most remarkable changes in the State’s social landscape. He was awarded the A.M. (Member of the Order of Australia) in 2006 and the title - Western Australia Citizen of the Year, in 2007.

IAN CHARLES LODGE PATCH (1923-1996). M.D., B.S. (Lond.), F.R.C.P. (Lond.), F.R.C.Psych., D.P.M. (Acad.).

Ian Charles Lodge Patch (1923-1996) [Epsom College 1937-1941. Classics Scholarship. Rugby XV] was the son of Dr C. J. Lodge Patch, M.C., of Lahore, Pakistan. He was awarded an Entrance Scholar to the London Hospital, and was appointed Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at the Hammersmith, Springfield and St Charles’s Hospitals (1959-1988), as well as Honorary Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School. He was previously Senior Registrar at the Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospitals, and Medical Registrar at the London Hospital. On being appointed Consultant Psychiatrist at Springfield Hospital, a Victorian asylum with two thousand patients, he wrote that it “preserved most of the worst characteristics of inactive, laissez-faire psychiatry…with a handful of doctors, some of whom themselves were seriously disabled.” His appointment meant that there were now four consultants to care for the patients “in wards of huge collections of miscellaneous inadequately treated patients, many of whom had been there with little reason for much of their adult lives. The fixed ritual each day was lunch, where the four consultants met round a huge table spread with a crisp white cloth, in the middle of which stood a large silver cup, awarded to the hospital farm for pig breeding.” Dr Lodge Patch took pride in his work of transforming the hospital over the next twenty five years, with the development of an energetic postgraduate programme for junior doctors, the improvement of patient care and the reduction of patient numbers. Before this appointment he completed his National Service in Nigeria.

GROUP CAPTAIN LIONEL KENTISH GARSTIN (1923-2010). R.A.F., M.B., B.S. (Lond.), F.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.).

Lionel Kentish Garstin (1923-2010) [Epsom College 1937-1942] was the son of Harold Garstin, musician, of East Horsley, Surrey. He received his medical education at the Westminster Hospital. He completed his National Service in the R.A.F. Medical Branch (1951), before accepting a permanent commission (1954-1981). He was appointed Commanding Officer, R.A.F. Headley Court, and before that was Deputy Principal Medical Officer of the R.A.F. Support Command. He was also a Consultant Ear, Nose and Throat Surgeon for the R.A.F., serving at Akrotiri, Cyprus, and Wegberg, Germany. At the end of the Second World War he joined a party of 90 other senior medical students at Belsen Concentration Camp after World War Two to give medical aid. This initiative was under the command of another Old Epsomian, Brigadier Hugh Llewellyn Glyn Hughes, C.B.E., D.S.O. [Epsom College 1903-1910].

ALAN NORMAN JENNINGS (born 1923). M.B., Ch.B. (Sydney), D.P.M. (Manchester).

Alan Norman Jennings (born 1923) [Epsom College 1936-1940] was the son of Dr Norman Jennings, of Hull, Lincolnshire. He received his medical education at Sydney University, Australia, and Manchester University. He was appointed Consultant Psychiatrist at the No. 3 Child Guidance Clinic, Sydney, and was previously Medical Officer at the New South Wales Department of Mental Hygiene.

EDGAR RICHARD REID (born 1924). M.B., B.S. (Lond.), M.R.C.S, L.R.C.P. (Eng.), D.A. (Eng.).

Edgar Richard Reid (born 1924) [Epsom College 1938-1942] was the son of Dr James Reid, of Banbury, Oxfordshire. He received his medical education at the London Hospital, and later emigrated to Australia where he was appointed Clinical Assistant (Anaesthetics) at Fremantle Public Hospital. Before this appointment he was Registrar (Anaesthetics) at the London Hospital. He was awarded the medal of the General Division of The Order of Australia for Services to medicine in the field of general practice, care of the veterans and sport (1999).

KENNETH ROBERTSON DEMPSTER (1924-2001). M.B., B.S. (Lond.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), M.D., F.R.C.Path.

Kenneth Robertson Dempster (1924-2001) [Epsom College 1936-1942. Foundation Scholar. prefect. Rugby XV. Captain of Cricket XI. Ann du Bois Prize] was the son of Dr David Dempster, M.C., Perth. He received his medical education at St Thomas’s Hospital, and was appointed Consultant Histopathologist at the King Edward VII Hospital, Windsor (1957-1989). During the Second World War he served with the Red Cross at the relief of the Belsen prisoner of war camp (1945). This operation was under the command of another Old Epsomian, Brigadier Hugh Llewellyn Glyn Hughes C.B.E., D.S.O. [Epsom College 1903-1910]. While at school Kenneth Dempster played cricket against an R.A.F. side and gained a mention in Wisden in 1943 by dismissing two Test Match cricketers, Leslie Ames and W. J. Edrich.

HUMPHRY BOHUN KIDD (1924-1965). B.A., M.B., B.Ch. (Cantab.).

Humphry Bohun Kidd (1924-1965) [Epsom College 1938-1942. Cricket XI] was the son of Dr Archibald Kidd [Epsom College 1879-1887]. He received his medical education at Clare College Cambridge and the Middlesex Hospital. He served as a Captain in the R.A.M.C. (1949-1951), as a Psychiatric Specialist. In 1952 he went to Canada as Senior Consultant Psychiatrist at the Hospital for Mental Diseases, Selkirk, Manitoba, and, in 1954, obtained the Specialist Certificate in Psychiatry of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Canada. In 1954 he returned to England and was appointed Consultant Psychiatrist at the Towers Hospital, Leicester. His appointment coincided with the new Mental Health Act of 1959 and he played a very large part in introducing the Team system and running the hospital on therapeutic community lines. He also played an active part integrating the hospital and community care services. He was a member of the Sheffield Regional Psychiatric Advisory Committee, and in 1963 he was a member of the Committee of ten psychiatrists to advise the Ministry of Health on the improvement of mental hospitals. In 1964 he spent three months advising the State of Minnesota on the reorganization of their Mental Health services. He was also a member of a Working Party connected with the National Association of Mental Health, dealing with Penal Reform.

JOHN THEODORE TRENCHAM (born 1924). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.).

John Theodore Trencham (born 1924) [Epsom College 1938-1942] was the son of T. W. Trencham, of West Hartlepool, County Durham. He received his medical education at the Middlesex Hospital, and was appointed Chief Medical Officer for the Cameroon Development Corporation. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

JOHN DEREK LITT (1924-2005). M.B., Ch.B. (Edin.), D.P.M. (Melbourne), M.A.N-Z.C.P.

John Derek Litt (1924-2005) [Epsom College 1938-1942] was the son of Colonel J. P. Litt, R.A.M.C., and brother of Charles Anthony Litt [Epsom College 1940-1942]. He received his medical education at Edinburgh University, and was appointed Honorary Psychiatrist at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, South Australia. He was previously Resident Medical Officer at the Mental Hospital, Parkside, Adelaide.

ROBERT MICHAEL LISCOMBE (born 1924). M.B., B.S. (Lond), D.A. (Eng.), F.F.A.R.C.S.

Robert Michael Liscombe (born 1924) [Epsom College 1939-1943. Rugby XV. Cricket XI] was the son of Dr R. H. Liscombe, of Rangoon, Burma (Myanmar). He received his medical education at St Mary’s Hospital, and was appointed Consultant Anaesthetist at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, and King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, London. From 1944 until 1945 he served as a Lieutenant in the Royal Sussex Regiment.

AIR COMMODORE EDWARD JOHN McGUIRE (born 1924). R.A.F., Q.H.S., M.B., B.S. (Lond.), F.F.C.M., M.F.O.M., M.R.Ae.S.

Edward John McGuire (born 1924) [Epsom College 1938-1943. prefect] was the son of Dr C. A. McGuire, of South Croydon, Surrey. He received his medical education at Guy’s Hospital, and was appointed Director of Public Health for Tunbridge Wells Health Authority, and District Community Physician for the Cuckfield and Crawley Health District. Before this appointment he served in the R.A.F. Medical Branch, as Director of Health and Research for the R.A.F. In 1957 he was awarded the Lady Cade Medal, of the Royal College of Surgeons, and presented annually to the R.A.F. doctor who has made the most outstanding advance to aviation medicine. He was a Fellow of the Aerospace Medical Association, and an Honorary Surgeon to H.M. the Queen.

HUGH JAMES BOWEN GALBRAITH (born 1924). M.D. (Lond.), M.B., B.S., F.R.C.P. (Lond.), D.Obst. R.C.O.G., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.).

Hugh James Bowen Galbraith (born 1924) [Epsom College 1938-1942] was the son of Dr D. H. A. Galbraith, of Launceston, Cornwall. He received his medical education at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, and was appointed Consultant Physician for the Chelmsford Health District Hospitals.

RICHARD TANKARD SEARS (born 1924). M.A., M.B., B.Ch (Cantab.), F.R.C.S. (Eng.), F.R.C.O.G., D.Obst.

Richard Tankard Sears (born 1924) [Epsom College 1937-1942. prae.schol. Ralph Gooding Chemistry, Smith-Pearse Botany and Brande Prizes] was the son of Herbert Sears, corn merchant, of Chesterfield, Derbyshire. He received his medical education at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he was an Exhibitioner, and the Middlesex Hospital. He was appointed Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at the Women’s Hospital, Nottingham, and King’s Mill Hospital, Sutton-in-Ashfield.

DEREK JOHN SHEERBOOM (born 1924). M.B., B.S. (Lond.), L.M.S.S.A., M.F.C.M., D.P.H. (Eng.).

Derek John Sheerboom (born 1924) [Epsom College 1937-1941. Cricket XI] was the son of H. S. Sheerboom, of Chipstead, Surrey. He received his medical education at Guy’s Hospital, and was appointed Deputy Medical Officer of Health for Kensington and Chelsea. He was previously Medical Officer of Health for Epsom and Ewell, and Employment Adviser for the EMAS.

DAVID ELGAN EIDDIG JONES (1924-1954). M.B., B.S. (Lond.), L.R.C.P. (Eng.), F.R.C.S. (Edin.).

David Elgan Eiddig Jones (1924-1954) [Epsom College 1938-1941. prefect] was the son of D. J. Jones, schoolmaster, of Wrexham, North Wales. He received his medical education at St Thomas’s Hospital, and was appointed Consultant Surgeon at St Thomas’s Hospital. He was previously Resident Surgical Officer at the Royal Waterloo Hospital, and a Surgeon Lieutenant, R.N.V.R., on HMS Belfast in the Far East.

PETER ANTHONY GARDNER (born 1924). L.A.H. (Dublin), F.F.C.M., D.P.H. (Liverpool).

Peter Anthony Gardner (born 1924) [Epsom College 1939-1940] was the son of P. A. Gardner, dentist, of Fulwood, Preston. He received his medical education at Edinburgh University and Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, where he won the John Kershaw Award (1986). He was appointed Principal Senior Medical Officer (Administration) for Durham County Council, and Medical Officer of Health for Barrow-in-Furness and Blackburn County Boroughs, as well as District Medical Officer of the Huddersfield Health Authority. He was the Area Specialist in Community Medicine (Social Services) for Oldham, President of the Society for Community Medicine, and Honorary Secretary and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Central Committee for Community Medicine.

JOHN RICHARD WARD WYNNE (1924-2006). O.St.J., M.B., B.S. (Lond.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), L.M.C.C.

John Richard Ward Wynne (1924-2006) [Epsom College 1936-1940. prefect] was the son of John Wynne, customs officer, of Anyox, British Columbia. He received his medical education at University College Hospital, and then emigrated to Vancouver, Canada, where he worked initially at St Paul’s Hospital. In 1942, he joined the Royal Canadian Forces Medical Service as a Colonel. He was appointed Deputy Chief of Medical Services for the National Defence Medical Centre, Ottawa, and was previously Commanding Officer and Chief of Medical Service for the Canadian Forces Hospital, Cold Lake, Alberta, and Commanding Surgeon for Air Transport Command at Headquarters Trenton, Ontario, Canada.