Former surgeon Keighley and Airedale (b 1917; q Leeds 1940), died from chronic heart failure on 6 September 2004.
He had a distinguished wartime career as a surgeon in the Royal Army Medical Corps, leaving the army with the rank of lieutenant colonel. He returned to Leeds Infirmary and in 1954 was appointed consultant surgeon at Pontefract with sessions in Goole and Selby. In 1962 he was appointed to Keighley Victoria Hospital and transferred to the new Airedale General Hospital in 1970, retiring in 1982. In his youth he had represented the Combined English Universities at fencing and was a skilled archer. He leaves a wife, Barbara; three sons; and seven grandchildren. His daughter died a few days after his funeral.
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