Former senior general surgeon Norfolk and Norwich Hospital (b Northamptonshire 1919; q Cambridge/St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, 1942; MA, MChir, FRCS), d 11 April 2004.
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During the second world war John served in the Royal Army Medical Corps as captain in an African regiment from 1943 in Sierra Leone and then in Burma. He moved to Norwich as resident surgical officer in 1952, was appointed consultant to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital in 1955, and retired in 1984. John was an early protagonist of an immunological approach to cancer, performing some original work on the use of BCG in breast disease but never publishing his results. An athlete of distinction from schooldays, he continued an active sporting career, captaining the Barts rugby XV and playing for Blackheath, Northampton, and Kent. He was a competent cruising yachtsman who, in his retirement, kept his boat in the west of Scotland and cruised extensively. He leaves a wife, Barbara; three children; and three grandchildren.
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