Former consultant plastic surgeon St James's Hospital, Leeds (b 1915; q Leeds 1938; FRCS), died from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma on 9 June 2002.
After studying plastic surgery at Rooksdown House, Basingstoke, Mortimer joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and went to the Middle East as assistant surgeon in a maxillofacial team treating the casualties of desert warfare. In 1947 he joined the embryo plastic unit at St James's Hospital in Leeds. Over the years he established a plastic surgery unit in Bradford, inaugurated one in Hull, and built up the one at St James's. He was a talented pianist, an accomplished photographer, a lover of fast cars, and a tireless hill walker. He leaves a wife, Mary; two children; and four grandchildren.
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