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David Roy Lucas

David Roy Lucas served in the Home Guards as a medical student and joined the Mobile First Aid Unit. After house jobs at University College Hospital, he trained in pathology....

David John Weatherall: haematologist and geneticist whose work on thalassaemia showed the potential of molecular medicine

Credit: Tom Solomon David Weatherall was an icon of British medicine, a pioneering haematologist and geneticist whose work on thalassaemia showed the potential of applying molecular approaches to clinical medicine...

Jessie Campbell Yorston

Jessie Campbell Yorston was one of a small number of women to graduate from Aberdeen in 1953. After house jobs, at the children’s hospital and Woodend Hospital, she became a...

Anthony Victor Hirsh

Anthony Victor Hirsh (“Tony”) was one of the leading andrologists in the UK and a general practitioner in central London. He did his preclinical training at King’s College London and...

Samuel William Babington Newsom

Samuel William Babington Newsom (“Bill”) was educated at Rossall School (1945-50) and Caius College (1950-3), where he developed a lifelong link to Cambridge. After undergraduate work he attended the Westminster...

Jeremy Oliver Neil Lawson

Jeremy Oliver Neil Lawson studied medicine at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School on a Kitchener’s scholarship (1947-53). At medical school he sailed for United Hospitals Sailing Club and played water...

Anthony J Winterton

Anthony J Winterton (“Tony”) was born in Leicester and educated at Wyggeston School, also in Leicester. He read medicine at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School in London, where he played...

Peter John Donald Whittaker

After Cambridge, Peter John Donald Whittaker went to the Westminster Hospital, where he won the Bulkeley medal and met Bryony, his future wife. They both went to Chichester for their...

Katherine Mary Donnelly

One of 11 children (including six doctors), Katherine Mary Donnelly (“Maura”) McLoughlin met her future husband, Brian Donnelly, as a fourth year medical student on an anaesthetics placement at Daisy...

Alan Stanley Ogden

Alan Stanley Ogden was a general practitioner in Bournemouth from 1946 until his retirement in 1985. After house jobs, he served five years in the Royal Army Medical Corps, mostly...

Olivia Marie-Virginie Mine Schofield

Olivia Marie-Virginie Mine Schofield was a dedicated and well respected consultant dermatologist who enhanced dermatology services in Scotland, particularly in paediatric dermatology. She was appointed as a consultant dermatologist to...

Sophie Louise Ellis

After house jobs in London, Sophie Louise Ellis (nee Bassindale) joined the Oxford general practitioner scheme. She moved to Milton Keynes and worked in primary care roles including as GP...

Interview: Paul Williams: MP and GP.

Paul Williams is the Labour Member of Parliament for Stockton South, where he overturned a Tory majority of 5046 at the 2017 election. Until then he was a GP partner and head of a GP federation. Paul qualified from Newcastle upon Tyne, where he joined the Labour Party, and did house jobs in Bishop Auckland and Carlisle. He trained as a GP on the Cleveland vocational training scheme. His medical career was always going to be general practice, and it has been driven, he says, by an appreciation of the meaning of health and the determinants of health and illness, and a keen awareness of the Inverse Care Law. After spells in a number of practices around Teesside, Paul and his partner Vicky travelled to Africa with VSO to spend almost 5 years in Bwindi, Uganda, where the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest is home to half of the world’s mountain gorillas and the Batwa Pygmies, the ‘first people of …

Begoña Anne Bovill

An article about leprosy in the World of Wonder children’s magazine triggered Begona Anne Bovill’s early interest in medicine and infectious disease. She went to the Royal Free Hospital School...

Russell Frederick Graham

Russell Frederick Graham (“Freddie”) was born in Liverpool. The third of four siblings, he attended Booker Avenue Primary School as a child, followed by the renowned Liverpool Institute for Boys....

James Lechler Duck

James Lechler Duck (“Jim”) embraced each day with enthusiasm and his love of life. After completing his house jobs in Bristol he moved to Castle Douglas in Dumfries and Galloway,...

John D Baston

After qualifying John Baston completed house jobs at Birmingham Children's Hospital, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, and Littlemore psychiatric hospital, before doing two years’ national service with the Royal Air...

Cliff Roberton: devoted his working life to improving the care of babies

Clifford Roberton (“Cliff”) was a distinguished member of the first generation of neonatal paediatricians who developed and promoted the science and practice of the medical care of ill newborn babies....

Alexander Hugh Davies

Alexander Hugh Davies (“Alec”) was born in Cardiff, a vicar’s son. Educated at St John’s School, Leatherhead. He trained at the London Hospital. After house jobs at the London and...

Mary Catherine Ann Jorro

Mary Catherine Ann Jorro was born in Bristol to a Spanish father and Bristolian mother. After qualifying and house jobs, she joined Jimmy Macrae at Ham Green Hospital, treating, among...