Lionel Julian Stoll died a few weeks after celebrating his 100th birthday with a speech at a party at the Royal Society of Medicine. A well-known North London NHS general practitioner, he continued to see private patients into his 90s. Born in Lithuania in 1907, his family emigrated to England when he was 11. Qualifying in 1933, he established his practice in Primrose Hill, where, apart from wartime service as a Royal Air Force medical officer in Rhodesia, he continued working until his retirement in 1987. By that time he had built up his original singlehanded practice into a large partnership, which had been among the first to promote women partners.
He was a founder member and fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners and was an active member of the BMA, being made a fellow in 1967. He was proud to have been instrumental in the BMA’s support for mandatory car seat belts and for the placing of the Dickens blue plaque on BMA House. In his time he was chairman of the local family practitioners’ committee and the district management team. His personal fitness was remarkable, and he suffered scarcely a week’s illness in his entire adult life, which he partly put down to his daily regimen of brisk exercises followed by a cold shower. He leaves a wife, Fiona, a former industrial tribunal chairman; three sons and one daughter; and nine grandchildren.
Former general practitioner Camden, London (b 1907; q Guy’s Hospital 1933; FRCGP), died from pulmonary oedema and cardiac arrest on 21 November 2007.