Former consultant cardiothoracic surgeon Walsgrave Hospital, Coventry (b Newport, Gwent, 1928; q Cambridge/Bristol 1952; MChir, FRCS), died on 12 May 2002 following surgery for metastases from colon cancer.
After national service in the Royal Air Force, Bill trained as a cardiothoracic surgeon in London. In 1967 he was appointed consultant to the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, Warwick, moving with the department to Walsgrave Hospital, Coventry, in 1970. Here he had a pivotal role in the development of bypass surgery for the area—appropriately, for a Welshman, doing the first operation on St David's Day. He was honorary secretary of the Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons and adviser to the chief medical officer at the Department of Health. He leaves a wife, Phyllis; three children; and five grandchildren.
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