MBE, TD, FFA, RCS, DA

Anaesthetist

Ninth President of the Society, 1968-70 (Died during last term.)

"Peter" to us all in the Society was a man of great learning, with a keen wit and quick with apt quotation. His many papers to the Society were entertaining but based on a profound knowledge of his subject. He possessed a card index for each know day of the life of Mary, Queen of Scots, and his paper on her and her husbands at Linlithgow in 1956 has fortunaterly been preserved in toto in our Report Proceedings as have his other contributions to our meetings. He published the Casket Letters and The Evolution of Anaesthesia in the same year (1965). At the time of his premature death he was Lecturer on the History of Medicine at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.