Former consultant physician Brompton and Royal Free Hospitals, London (b 1936; q Birmingham 1959; MD, FRCP), died from chronic neurological disease on 28 September 2005.
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Stewart William Clarke showed a lifetime commitment to respiratory medicine. He brought fibreoptic bronchoscopy to the United Kingdom in the early 1970s and taught a generation of chest physicians this now standard technique. His many other achievements included establishing a group at the Royal Free to study airway function and aerosol deposition in the lungs, chairing the working party of the Royal College of Physicians of London on smoking in the young, being the first president of the European Respiratory Society, and being a member of the Technical Options Committee on Aerosols under the auspices of the United Nations Environment Programme. He leaves a wife, Gillian; two sons; and three granddaughters.
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