Former tropical medicine specialist and museum curator London (b London 1920; q London 1943; FRCP), died from tuberculosis on 4 December 2004.
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Tony Duggan served in Nigeria as medical and senior medical officer in the Sleeping Sickness Service between 1944 and 1953. Following a brief period as pathology registrar at Central Middlesex Hospital he became assistant director and then director of the Wellcome Museum of Medical Science (from 1964 until retirement). He published numerous papers on tropical medicine, most being on various aspects of the trypanosomiases. He was the major inspiration behind and curator of the Wellcome museum in Euston Road, London. He leaves a wife, Christine; and five children.
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