Dr. G. L. Foss

Dr. George Lush Foss who died on 11th February 1985 at the age of 76 years was not only a highly respected General Practitioner in Bristol but also a pioneer in the early days of Endocrinology and the problems of sub-fertility. Educated at Marlborough and Jesus College, Cambridge he did his clinical training in Bristol where his father was a general practitioner in St. George. On the very day that he graduated in medicine in 1933 he learned that his father had had a stroke and returned to Bristol to perform the evening surgery and take over the practice. In spite of the busy commitments of practice he immediately developed his interest in endocrinology and was Colston Research Fellow from 1935 to 1937 and later honorary assistant in endocrine gynaecology in Bristol. After the war he was appointed adviser in subfertility to the United Bristol Hospitals and medical officer in charge of Bristol's male subfertility clinic. He published altogether 51 papers on a wide variety of aspects of endocrinology and his last paper on the results of AID in collaboration with Mr. Michael Hull