Geoffrey Mitchell

General practitioner London (b 1932; q Leeds 1955; MRCP, FRCP Ed), died from an astrocytoma on 18 September 2003.

During his student years Geoffrey learnt to fly in the university air squadron. After house posts he joined the Royal Air Force. He undertook postgraduate training in renal medicine, ultimately becoming a senior specialist in medicine at RAF Halton and later in Wegberg, West Germany. In 1966 he joined, as a temporary assistant, a private practice in the Harley Street precinct. The “temporary” job lasted 37 years until his death. In 1974 his two daughters survived a fire in the family home, but his wife died trying to save a friend. Some years later Geoffrey remarried, and now leaves a wife and a daughter, as well as two daughters from his first marriage.