SIR JOHN HERBERT PARSONS: An Appreciation

Sir Michael Drury: an appreciation.

Kt, oBe, frcP, frcGP, fracGP 1926–2014 Professor Sir Michael Drury, who died on 11 June, was a GP in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire for 38 years, the first professor of general practice at the University of Birmingham and President of the Royal College of General Practitioners from 1985–1988. He was a towering figure in general practice; unassuming, approachable, patient, a superb listener, unflapp...

John Punnett Peters: An Appreciation

Sir Martin Roth FRS: an appreciation.

Since the mid-19th century central Europe had been the cradle of conceptual thinking had been the cradle of conceptual thinking in clinical psychiatry. Following the turbu-in clinical psychiatry. Following the turbulence and persecution in the 1920s and lence and persecution in the 1920s and 1930s some of a later generation of mid-1930s some of a later generation of mid-European psychiatrists e...

John Bartlett: appreciation & celebration.

When I was 6-years-old I wrote a letter to Roy Rogers, the cowboy star of movies and television, asserting that I was his biggest fan. That was the first and only fan letter I ever wrote. When I was invited to speak at a Festschrift for John Bartlett, I quickly replied, “I am much honored to be asked to be part of your proposed celebration of John. I can’t think of anyone in our discipline who ...

Sir John Forsyth, C.B., K.C.S.I.

der of his official life so useful and prominent. In that year he was appointed senior surgeon to the force, numbering 9,000, which served under His Majesty Soojah-ool-Moolk. While thus employed he took part in the first capture of Ghuzni, and was in 1840 decorated by Shah Soojah with the Third Class of the Order of the Doorranee Empire. During the next two years he was engaged in the thrilling...