Obituaries

Professor Sir Ivor Batchelor died on 24th April aged 88 years.

Contributed by Dr P M Barnes

Professor Valerian Kimati was an outstanding Tanzanian Paediatrician, who made a major contribution to the development of academic and clinical paediatrics in...

Dr Alastair Donald was the archetypal General Practitioner.

Dr Sivakami Devi was consultant physician at the Tan Tock Seng Hospital, a public hospital in Singapore.

Frank Friedlander was born 11 days after Armistice Day in 1918 in Cape Town South Africa.

Gordon Piller was born in Plymouth and educated at Penzance Grammar School, King’s, Durham and the King’s Fund Staff College in London.

[The College is grateful for the following information sent by the University of Peradeniya]

Dr Chandra Amerasekerra was a former Professsor of Forensic Medicine, University of Peredeniya, Sri...

Contributed by Dr David D Pottinger, New Zealand

Alf Poole will be remembered for his immense contribution to medicine, the community and the historical, cultural and sporting areas....

[Contributed by Sir Kenneth Calman Chief Medical Officer]

Cicely Saunders, renowned as the founder of the modern hospice movement, died on 14.

Dr Saner did his internship at Pretoria and was also a captain in the SA Medical Corps.

The death, aged 92, of Sir Richard Doll on July 24th, 2005 robbed the world of one of its greatest benefactors and the medical profession of one of its...

Tom Chalmers was born on 1 September 1929 and died suddenly on 1 August 2005.