Consultant physician in respiratory medicine Glasgow 1965-89 (b 1924; q Glasgow 1947), died from myeloma on 28 March 2004.
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During his national service he was posted to Trieste, where he developed his lifelong passion for skiing. After a Fulbright travel scholarship to the Institute of Allergy, Roosevelt Hospital, New York, he was senior registrar in the MRC clinical research unit at the Western Infirmary, Glasgow, before becoming the first consultant in charge of the new respiratory medicine unit based at Knights-wood Hospital and of the intensive therapy unit at the Western Infirmary. His main research interest was adrenergic receptors in asthma. After retirement from the NHS he advised lawyers and other representatives of patients with asbestos related diseases. He leaves a wife, Muriel; two children; and five grandchildren.
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