Former consultant anaesthetist Sunderland (b Glasgow 1915; q Cambridge/the London Hospital 1942; DA, FFARCS), d 20 October 2003.
He served in the Royal Army Medical Corps in the Far East, becoming anaesthetist on a hospital ship and then to a mobile surgical unit, reaching the rank of major. In 1949 he was appointed one of the first two consultant anaesthetists to the Sunderland Group of Hospitals, where, for 20 years, he was in sole administrative charge of an expanding department. He designed and made electrodes for the non-invasive intraoral stimulation of the mandibular nerve. He leaves three children and two grandchildren.
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