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

ALAN PHILIP LLOYD COGSWELL (born 1902). M.B., B.S. (Lond.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), D.A.(Eng.), F.F.A.R.C.S.

Alan Philip Lloyd Cogswell (born 1902) [Epsom College 1916-1920. Captain of Rugby XV] was the son of Dr P. D. Cogswell, of Bromley, Kent, and brother of Dr Cyril Dare Cogswell [Epsom College 1914-1918]. He received his medical education at King’s College Hospital. He was a Barrister-at-Law of Gray’s Inn; H.M. Coroner for the East District, County of Middlesex, and Visiting Anaesthetist at the London County Council Hospitals. He was a member of the Coroners’ Society of Great Britain.

ERNEST ALBERT ROCHESTER BERKLEY (1903-1979). T.D., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), F.R.C.P. (Lond.).

Ernest Albert Rochester Berkley (1903-1979) [Epsom College 1918-1922. Rugby XV] was the son of A. W. T. Berkley, of Waddon, Croydon. He received his medical education at Guy’s Hospital, and was appointed Assistant Medical Officer to the Lancashire County Council. Before that he was County Medical Officer of Health for Worcestershire, and County Medical Officer for the Worcester Branch of the Red Cross. During the Second World War he served as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the R.A.M.C. (1939-1945).

GWYN ROCYN-JONES (1903-1979). M.A., M.D., B.Ch. (Cantab.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), D.P.H. (Wales).

Gwyn Rocyn-Jones (1903-1979) [Epsom College 1917-1922. prefect. Cricket XI] was the son of Sir David Rocyn-Jones, C.B.E., of Llantarnam, South Wales. He received his medical education at Downing College, Cambridge, and King’s College Hospital. He was appointed County Medical Officer of Health and Schools Medical Officer for Monmouthshire, having previously been the County Pathologist for Monmouthshire. He was a Fellow of the Society of Medical Officers of Health, and County Commissioner for the St John’s Ambulance Brigade.

GEORGE EDWARD GRAVES PEIRCE (born 1903). M.B., B.S. (Lond.), L.R.C.P. (Lond.), F.R.C.S. (Eng.).

George Edward Graves Peirce (born 1903) [Epsom College 1917-1921. prefect. Sterry Prize] was the son of George Pierce, banker, of Youghal, Co. Cork. He received his medical education at St Mary’s, St Bartholomew’s and the London Hospitals. He was appointed Regional Medical Officer for British Railways (London and Midland Region), and Medical Officer for the Railway Clearing House. He was a Member of the Association of Industrial Medical Officers.

JOHN KIRKPATRICK MONRO (1903-1993). M.A., M.D., M.Ch. (Cantab.), F.R.C.S. (Eng.), M.R.C.P. (Lond.)

John Kirkpatrick Monro (1903-1993) [Epsom College 1916-1921. prefect] was the son of Dr J. D. R. Monro, of Muswell Hill, North London, and brother of Andrew Killey Monro, F.R.C.S. [Epsom College 1922-1925]. He received his medical education at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and the London Hospital, where he won the Sutton Prize for Pathology, and the Adams Clark Prize for Clinical Medicine and Pathology. He was appointed Professor of Surgery at Singapore (1935-1950), Consultant Surgeon at the Singapore General Hospital, and Honorary Consultant Surgeon to the British Army in Singapore. Jack Monro’s career as Professor of Surgery at Singapore was interrupted by the Japanese invasion at the start of World War Two. He was interned for three and a half years in Changi gaol, where there were no facilities for surgery but many nutritional ulcers to treat. After the war he returned to London for a refresher course and then returned to Singapore (1946), where he helped with the restoration of the General Hospital and the formation of the University of Malaya. In 1950, he returned to England and was appointed Consultant Surgeon at Swindon, Marlborough and Cirencester Hospitals (1950-1968). When he retired, he set up as a registered charity, the first vasectomy clinic in England and continued operating until the age of 82. “The botanist E. J. H. Corner relates how John Monro once operated on a monkey which had been trained to retrieve botanical specimens from high trees and which was having difficulty in swallowing. Subsequently the monkey bit Corner, so Monro had to operate on the botanist as well.”

DONALD SCRIMGEOUR BATEMAN (1904-1944). B.A., B.M., B.Ch. (Oxon.), F.R.C.P. (Lond.), D.C.H. (Eng.).

Donald Scrimgeour Bateman (1904-1944) [Epsom College 1916-1922] was the son of Dr W. H. Bateman, J.P., of Rochdale. He received his medical education at University College, Oxford University, and St Thomas’s Hospital. After the usual pre-registration house and registrar jobs at St Thomas’s, he was appointed paediatric intern at Bellevue Hospital, New York, and on his return, Registrar at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, the Westminster Hospital, Queen Charlotte’s Hospital and the London Hospital. He was then appointed Consultant Paediatrician at St Mary’s Hospital, Manchester. During the Second World War he served as a Wing Commander in the R.A.F. In 1942, he was posted to Iraq where he was put in charge of a hospital for the children of native troops. He was extremely popular with the staff and patients, and it was said that his entry into the children’s ward was “heralded as ever by demonstrations of delight.” In 1944, he was killed in a flying accident overseas, and at the time of his death was physician in charge of the medical division of an R.A.F. Hospital overseas.

ARTHUR MAURICE McMASTER (1904-1977). M.B., B.S. (Lond.), L.R.C.P. (Lond.), F.R.C.S. (Edin.), J.P.

Arthur Maurice McMaster (1904-1977) [Epsom College 1919-1923. prefect. Sterry Prize] was the son of Dr A. B. McMaster, of Crewe, and brother of Norman Berry McMaster [Epsom College 1920-1925]. He received his medical education at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, and following qualification entered general practice at Spotland Bridge, Rochdale. However in 1931, he decided to abandon this in favour of a career in surgery. He then achieved the not inconsiderable feat of taking the F.R.C.S. Examination from general practice, and after this was appointed to the staff of the Rochdale Infirmary as a surgeon. In 1948, he was appointed Consultant Surgeon. His main interest was in genitourinary surgery and “by dint of perseverance and visiting many other centres he succeeded in becoming one of the leading urological surgeons in the North-West.” He was a founder member of the Rochdale Hospital Management Committee, and at served a period as Chairman of the Rochdale Division of the British Medical Association. He served as a J.P. for Rochdale and Cumbria.

ALISTAIR REGINALD FRENCH (1904-1966). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), D.I.H.

Alistair Reginald French (1904-1966) [Epsom College 1915-1921. prefect] was the son of Dr R. H. French, of Finchley, London, and brother of Robert Douglas French [Epsom College 1909-1915]. He received his medical education at the London Hospital, and then entered general practice in North Finchley (1926-1928), where he served as Honorary Medical Officer to the Finchley Memorial Hospital. He then served in the R.A.F. Medical Service in the Middle East., but returned to general practice in Greenford, Middlesex in 1933. During the Second World War he served in the R.A.F. Medical Service once again. After the War, he took the Diploma of Industrial Health (1947), and one year later was appointed Secretary of the Medical Protection Society, a post that he occupied until retirement in 1963. He was President of the Metropolitan Counties Branch of the British Medical Association from 1937-1941, and again in 1947-1948. From 1960-1961 he was Chairman of the Marylebone Division of the B.M.A. He was elected a Fellow of the British Medical Association in 1960.

GAVIN WILLIAM MILROY (1904-1996). M.B., Ch.B. (Edin.), M.D. (Edin.), F.R.C.S. (Edin.).

Gavin William Milroy (1904-1996) [Epsom College 1917-1921] was the son of Dr W. C. Milroy, of Wallasey, Cheshire, and father of Euan James Gavin Milroy [Epsom College 1952-1956]. He received his medical education at Edinburgh University, and subsequently passed the M.D. Examination with commendation. After qualification he went into general practice, but he gave this up after the Second World War for general surgery and was appointed Consultant Surgeon to the Central Hospital, Wallasey, Cheshire. Unfortunately severe pulmonary tuberculosis destroyed one of his lungs, excluding him from military service but enabling him to deal with the major surgical problems of the Merseyside bombing during the worst days of the war. He wrote several short stories and one-act plays in which he acted and was the producer. He had a love of grand opera and was one of the first members of the Glyndebourne Festival Society. He was selected for the Scottish Hockey trials.

BERNARD CLIVE NICHOLSON (1904-1993). M.A., B.Ch. (Cantab.), M.D. (Lond.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), D.P.H.

Bernard Clive Nicholson (1904-1993) [Epsom College 1918-1922. prefect] was the son of E. B. Nicholson, surveyor and estate agent, of Sutton, Surrey. He received his medical education at St John’s College, Cambridge, and St Bartholomew’s Hospital. He was appointed Consultant Rheumatologist at the Royal Bath Hospital, Harrogate, and Consultant Physician at Chapel Allerton Hospital, Leeds. During the Second World War he served as a Wing Commander in the R.A.F. (1941-1945). “Under his leadership the Royal Bath Hospital became a regional centre for rheumatology.”

GAVIN HAMILTON LIVINGSTONE (1904-1969). M.A., M.B., B.S. (Lond.), L.R.C.P., F.R.C.S. (Eng.).

Gavin Hamilton Livingstone (1904-1969) [Epsom College 1918-1922. prefect] was the son of Dr William Livingstone, of Winchester. He received his medical education at King’s College Hospital, and was appointed Consultant Ear, Nose and Throat Surgeon at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford; Director of the Department of Otolaryngology of the United Oxford Hospitals, and Lecturer in Otolaryngology at Oxford University. He was a former Bernhard Baron Scholar at the Ferens Institute of Otolaryngology, the Middlesex Hospital, and former Assistant Surgeon to the Royal National Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital, Golden Square, London. During the Second World War he served with the Emergency Medical Service in London and then joined the medical staff at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford. Soon after coming to Oxford he was mentioned in dispatches for rescuing a man who had been pinned under the wing of a blazing crashed aircraft. After the war he resumed his ENT work at the Radcliffe Infirmary where he specialised in problems of deafness, especially in children. He made a specialty within the specialty of the reconstruction of a conduction mechanism for hearing in children with congenital ear defects. In his work he established an international reputation, not only attracting a steady stream of patients from far and wide, but increasingly being in demand as a speaker and writer. He was a past President of the Section of Laryngology of the Royal Society of Medicine. He was a Harrison prize-winner and Yearsley Lecturer, as well as an Honorary Member of the Otolaryngological Society of Australia, and an Examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons. In 1948 he was awarded the Medal of Reconnaissance Française. Apart from his career in ENT surgery, Gavin Livingstone developed an interest in breeding pedigree pigs and took several prizes at the Royal and other shows. “If it were possible to sum up Livingstone’s personality in three attributes these might well be energy, tolerance, and kindliness. He had an unfair ration of all three.”

KEITH ALISTAIR THOMAS [afterwards BOUGHTON-THOMAS] (born 1904). M.B., Ch.B. (Birmingham).

Keith Alistair Thomas (born 1904) [Epsom College 1919-1922] was the son of Henry Thomas, bank manager, of Old Swinford, Worcestershire, and father of David Aidan Boughton-Thomas [Epsom College 1946-1949]. He received his medical education at Birmingham University and was appointed Assistant Pathologist at the Children’s Hospital, Birmingham. He was then appointed Principal Medical Officer at the Ministry of Health, Chief Medical Adviser to the Ministry of Labour and National Services, and Editor of Prescriber’s Notes. During the Second World War he served as a Squadron Leader in the R.A.F.V.R.

JOHN NOEL USHER RUSSELL (born 1904). M.B.E., M.B., B.Ch. (Dublin), B.A.O.

John Noel Usher Russell (born 1904) [Epsom College 1919-1923. prefect] was the son of Dr G. H. Russell, of Cashel, County Tipperary, and brother of Colonel George Vernon Russell, R.A. [Epsom College 1916-1919]. He received his medical education at Trinity College, Dublin, and was appointed Medical Officer at the Ministry of Pensions. During the Second World War he served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the R.A.M.C. (1939-1945) as a Medical Specialist in Command of a Military Hospital.

WALTER NEVILLE OWEN GEORGE (born 1904). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), D.P.M. (Eng.).

Walter Neville Owen George (born 1904) [Epsom College 1918-1921. Rugby XV] was the son of J. O. George, of Hirwain, Glamorgan. He received his medical education at Cardiff Medical School (University of Cardiff), and University College Hospital. He was appointed Senior Medical Officer at the Horton Road and Coney Hill Hospitals, Gloucestershire. He was formerly Medical Officer at the Monmouth Mental Hospital. He was a member of the Royal Medical Psychological Association. During the period 1941-1942 he served as Captain in the Indian Medical Service

HENRY ANDREW KIDD (1904-1979). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), F.R.C.S. (Edin.), F.R.C.S. (Eng.), F.R.C.O.G.

Henry Andrew Kidd (1904-1979) [Epsom College 1917-1921. prefect] was the son of Dr Harold Andrew Kidd, C.B.E. He received his medical education at St Mary’s Hospital, and was appointed Senior Obstetric Officer at St Mary’s Hospital, as well as Tutor for the Fellowship Courses (F.R.C.S) at the Royal College of Surgeons. He was then appointed Consultant Surgeon to St Helier Hospital (1945-1969) and St Anthony’s Hospital, Cheam, Surrey. He was formerly Medical Superintendent at the Kingston County Hospital, Surrey. Among numerous other appointments, he was President of the Medical Superintendents Society (1944), Honorary Secretary of the Regional Consultants and Specialists Committee of the British Medical Association, and President of the Sutton Division and Surrey Branch of the British Medical Association. He was also Chairman of the South-West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board Consultants Committee, and a member of the Surrey County Bridge Team.

GERALD WILLIAM PIMBLETT (1904-1990). T.D., M.B., B.Ch. (Cantab.), D.M.R.D., D.M.R.

Gerald William Pimblett (1904-1990) [Epsom College 1917-1922. prefect] was the son of Dr W. H. Pimblett, of Preston. He received his medical education at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and St Bartholomew’s Hospital. In 1927, he went into general practice, but being in the Territorial Army he was called up for active service in 1939, and as a Major in the R.A.M.C., took part in the evacuation from Dunkirk and the Normandy landings (1944). He was mentioned in dispatches. After the war he took up diagnostic radiology and was appointed Consultant Radiologist at the Mayday Hospital, Croydon (1948-1969), where he built up the small department into a large, busy and efficient unit. He was also Chief Assistant Radiologist at St Bartholomew’s Hospital until 1948. He was so devoted to radiology that after retirement he did a long series of locums at Cochester and Northampton, and most unusually, was allowed to go on to the age of 80. He was always referred to as ‘Gerald Pimblett Pim’.

JOHN LEWIS FRANKLIN (1904-1972). M.A., M.D., B.Ch. (Cantab.), M.R.C.S., F.R.C.P. (Eng.).

John Lewis Franklin (1904-1972) [Epsom College 1918-1921] was the son of Philip Franklin, F.R.C.S., of Wimpole Street, and brother of Dr Alfred White Franklin, F.R.C.P. [Epsom College 1918-1923]. He received his medical education at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and St George’s Hospital. After a period as Registrar in the Department of Dermatology at the Westminster Hospital (1930-1934) he succeeded Dr S. E. Dore as Consultant Dermatologist. He was the co-author with Dr Dore of the textbook: Diseases of the Skin. While at Cambridge he acquired a Blue for Fencing. He was also a member of the United Hospitals fencing team.

COLONEL ROBERT RICHARDS LEANING (born 1905). O.B.E., O.St.J., R.A.M.C., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), D.P.H. (Eng.).

Robert Richards Leaning (born 1905) [Epsom College 1919-1922. prefect] was the son of Dr R. C. Leaning, of Gunnersbury, West London, and brother of William John Leaning [Epsom College 1921-1926]. He won an Open Scholarship to St Mary’s Hospital, and was then appointed Clinical Assistant in the Ear, Nose and Throat Department at St Mary’s. After this, he joined the R.A.M.C. and served as a Colonel in Nigeria, based at Lagos. He was mentioned in dispatches.

DOUGLAS STANLEY-JONES [formerly JONES] (born 1905). B.Sc., M.B., B.S. (Lond.), L.R.C.P., F.R.C.S. (Eng.).

Douglas Stanley-Jones (born 1905) [Epsom College 1919-1922. Martin Maths, Watts Science and Propert Prizes] was the son of H. S. Jones, accountant, of Croydon, Surrey. He won an Open Scholarship to St Bartholomew’s Hospital, and after qualification was appointed Demonstrator in Physiology at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, and then Teacher of Clinical Surgery at Bristol University. After his time at Bristol, he went into general practice at Hayle, Cornwall, where he was also appointed Surgeon at the St Michael’s Hospital, Hayle, the Helston District Memorial Hospital, and Consultant Surgeon at the Edward Hain Memorial Hospital, St Ives, as well as Medical Officer of Health for the Kerrier Rural District Council. He was a man of many interests and apart from his medical work he was Honorary Secretary of the Royal Geological Society.

CYRIL EDWARD HEDGEMAN TURNER (born 1905). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), D.P.M. (Eng.), F.R.C.Psych.

Cyril Edward Hedgeman Turner (born 1905) [Epsom College 1918-1924. Zoology and Brande Prizes] was the son of Dr P. E. Turner, of South India. He received his medical education at the London Hospital, and was then appointed Assistant Medical Officer at Leavesden Mental Hospital, Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire, and after a period there as Assistant Medical Officer at the Wadsley Mental Hospital, Huddersfield. His next appointment was that of Senior Medical Officer at Storthes Hall Mental Hospital, Huddersfield, before being appointed Consultant Psychiatrist and Medical Superintendent of the Towers Hospital, Humberstone, Leicester. He won the Bronze Medal of the Royal Medical Psychiatric Association, and was a member of the Medical Superintendent’s Society.

DAVID LINCOLN LEWIS (1906-1998). M.C., M.A. (Cantab.), L.R.C.P. (Eng.), M.Ch., F.R.C.S. (Eng.).

David Lincoln Lewis (1906-1998) [Epsom College 1920-1925] was the son of Dr W. J. Lewis, of Ystalyfera, Glamorgan, and brother of Roland Swaine Lewis, F.R.C.S. [Epsom College 1923-1926], Edward Axford Lewis [Epsom College 1927-1931], James William Lewis, L.D.S. [Epsom College 1927-1936]. He received his medical education at St John’s College, Cambridge, and St George’s Hospital, where he won the Brackenbury Prizes for medicine and surgery (1931). He was appointed Consultant Surgeon at Bethnal Green, and later to the Royal Salop Infirmary, Shewsbury. During the Second World War he served as a Captain in the R.A.M.C. in command of the 29 Field Surgical Unit, and was surgical specialist to the 98^th General Hospital in Italy, where he won the Military Cross. He was a member of the United Hospitals Rugby XV.

SURGEON REAR-ADMIRAL JOHN MANSEL REESE (born 1906). C.B., O.B.E., R.N., Q.H.P., C.St.J., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), D.P.H. (Eng.).

John Mansel Reese (born 1906) [Epsom College 1918-1925. prefect. Rugby XV. Captain of Athletics Team] was the son of Dr D. W. Reese, of Neath, South Wales. He received his medical education at St Mary’s Hospital, and then entered the Royal Naval Medical Service as a Surgeon Lieutenant, serving in Malta, Ceylon, Singapore, China, as well as at the Royal Naval Hospitals at Chatham, Portsmouth and Plymouth (1930-1962). He was awarded the Gilbert Blane Medal of the Royal College of Surgeons (1939), and was promoted to Medical Officer in Command of the Royal Naval Hospital, Plymouth. He was an Honorary Physician to H.M. the Queen.

DONALD ALEXANDER SANGSTER BLAIR (1906-1989). M.A., M.D., B.Ch. (Cantab.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), F.R.C.Psych., D.M.J., D.P.M. (Eng.).

Donald Alexander Sangster Blair (1906-1989) [Epsom College 1920-1924] was the son of Dr Alec Blair, of St Osyth, Essex, and brother of Bryce Evans Blair, F.R.C.S. [Epsom College 1924-1928], and father of Dr Angus Alastair Donald Blair [Epsom College 1951-1954]. He received his medical education at Clare College Cambridge, and St Thomas’s Hospital. In 1940 he was appointed the first Assistant Medical Officer of Cane Hill Hospital, Surrey and in 1946, Deputy Physician Superintendent at St Bernard’s Hospital, Southall, Middlesex. In 1948 he was appointed Consultant Psychiatrist at St Bernard’s and at Ashford Hospital. During the Second World War he served as a Major in the R.A.M.C. in France, at Larbert and Northfields Military Hospitals (1942-1946). Donald Blair made original and outstanding contributions in many aspects of psychiatry. In 1937 he was co-author of the first paper ever published on the use of phenytoin in epilepsy. His paper on group psychotherapy for war neuroses (1943) was one of the earliest on group therapy. In 1960 he wrote one of the first papers on the treatment of severe depression with imipramine. He was Vice-Chairman of the Advisory Committee in Psychiatry to the North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board.

CHARLES HENRY LEVICK (born 1906). M.R.C.S. (Eng.), M.R.C.P. (Lond.), D.A. (Eng.).

Charles Henry Levick (born 1906) [Epsom College 1920-1921] was the son of H. S Levick, steel manufacturer, of Worksop, Nottinghamshire. He received his medical education at the Royal Infirmary, Sheffield (Sheffield University). He was appointed Consultant Anaesthetist at the Ipswich and East Suffolk Hospital and the Suffolk Mental Hospital Group. He was a member of the Ipswich Clinical Society, and previously a Squadron Leader in the R.A.F.V.R.

PROFESSOR RICHARD WHEELER HAINES (born 1906). D.Sc. (Lond.), M.B., B.S. (Lond.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), F.Z.S.

Richard Wheeler Haines (born 1906) [Epsom College 1917-1924. prefect. Botany Prize] was the son of Dr A. W. Haines, of Pantgoleu, Merionethshire. He received his medical education at University College Hospital, and was appointed Senior Lecturer in Anatomy at the University of Sheffield, and then Reader in Anatomy at St Thomas’s Hospital, before his appointment as Professor of Anatomy at the Royal Medical College, Baghdad, Iraq,

KEITH STEWART THOMPSON (born 1907). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), F.R.M.S.

Keith Stewart Thompson (born 1907) [Epsom College 1921-1924] was the son of Dr Francis Thompson, of Sunbury, Middlesex, and brother of Ian Stewart Thompson [Epsom College 1923-1925], and Malcolm Stewart Thompson, R.A.F. [Epsom College 1924-1927]. He received his medical education at the London Hospital, and was then appointed Assistant Pathologist at the London Hospital. He later removed to Birmingham where he was Lecturer in the Department of Pathology at Birmingham University, and then Consultant Pathologist at Selly Oak Hospital, and the Queen Hospital, Birmingham. He was also Pathologist to the Birmingham City Council, and a member of the Pathological Society of Great Britain. During the Second World War he served as a Major in the R.A.M.C., as Pathologist at the British Base at Sekondi, on the Gold Coast (Ghana).

LOUIS PHILIPPE EUGENE LAURENT (1907-1992). M.D. M.B., B.S. (Lond.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), F.R.C.P. (Lond.).

Louis Philippe Eugene Laurent (1907-1992) [Epsom College 1920-1923] was the son of Dr O. A. E. Laurent, of Holland Road, Kensington, and brother of Dr Antoine Marc Pierre Laconfugue Laurent [Epsom College 1920-1924]. He received his medical education at University College Hospital. He was appointed Consultant Physician at the West London Hospital, Hammersmith, and the King Edward Memorial Hospital, Ealing (from 1937). During the Second World War he worked in the Emergency Medical Service (1939-1946), and was physician in charge of the units for spinal and peripheral nerve injuries at Park Prewitt Hospital, Basingstoke. In 1946 he was appointed Physician to the French Hospital in London. “An exceptional diagnostician with a flair for getting to the heart of a problem, he was a great teacher with the knack of simplifying even the most difficult subjects. He was bilingual in French and for many years was on the staff of the French Dispensary in London, for which service he was appointed Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur (1961).” After retiring he worked at Manor House Hospital, North London (1971-1986). He married Phyllis Baker, daughter of the Keeper of the National Gallery.