Former general practitioner Chatham, Ontario, and later Roswell, New Mexico (b Bradford, England, 1929; q Westminster Hospital, London, 1952), died from pneumonia on 15 September 2002.
Peter spent his childhood in London and after qualification was appointed house surgeon to the royal surgeon Sir Clement Price-Thomas. Following a job at Hillingdon, he married a Westminster nurse and they emigrated to Chatham, Ontario, where he was a colourful general practitioner and part time anaesthetist at the local hospital. After many years in Ontario he migrated south to Roswell, New Mexico, where he practised until his death. He leaves a wife, Nancy; four children by his first marriage; and his grandchildren.