Obituaries

(Contributed by James Foster) Robert Foster was born in Newcastleton, Roxburghshire, and educated at George Heriot’s School, Edinburgh, and Edinburgh University, where he graduated in Medicine in 1946....

(Based on an obituary published in the Journal of the New Zealand Medical Association, 7th June 2002) Pat Fox was a skilled dermatologist, a fascinating raconteur and an...

Mark was born in Dumfries in the closing months of the First World War, brought up in Carlisle where his father was The TB Sanatorium doctor, and had his...

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

(Contributed by Dr Christine Evans MD FRCSEd ) Consultant Physician Merseyside Dr Heinz Fuld was born in Germany, his father a managing director of an asphalt factory later...

A pioneer in research into coronary heart attacks.

The death of this Nobel Prize winner brings to an end a remarkable and highly productive, if eccentric and irregular, life.

Sam Galbraith embraced two careers as a neurosurgeon at Glasgow’s Southern General Hospital and later as a, sometimes controversial but always honest and enthusiastic, politician.

(Contributed by Neil MacDonald and colleagues in Alberta, Canada) James Alan Longmore Gilbert was born on January 28, 1918, in Grantown-on-Spey, Scotland, to Canadian parents.

(Contributed by Mr Philip Harris) John Gillingham was born in Dorchester, Dorset, England on March 15, 1916.

(Contributed by A Toft and N Finlayson) Ronald Haxton Girdwood, who died on 25 April in his 90th year, achieved much during his career in Academic Medicine. A graduate...

Dr Godbole was Hon.