Leslie Morton

Medical librarian and bibliographer London (b London 1907), d 17 February 2004.

Leslie Morton's first appointment as librarian was at the Royal Society of Medicine, followed by librarian at St Thomas' Hospital Medical School, the British Council medical department, the BMJ information office, and then the National Institute for Medical Research at Mill Hill from 1959 to 1972. He updated the American Fielding Garrison's History of Medicine and in 1943 published A Medical Bibliography: An Annotated Checklist of Texts Illustrating the History of Medicine (Garrison and Morton), which became the definitive work on this subject. After retiring in 1972 he became library adviser to the British Postgraduate Medical Federation. Predeceased by his wife, Bertha, he leaves two children.