It had all the appearances of a conventional sentencing hearing. The accused sat quietly in the front row of the Middleton Court House with his wife beside him, arm in arm. She gave him one last hug after the judge pronounced sentence: five years in a federal institution. Among the small group attending the hearing were two young teenagers, the daughters of the accused. When the judge handed do...

[email protected] For the past 28 years I have talked about him, usually when people asked about the patients I treated as a hospital doctor or when asked about heroes. He was an inauspicious man, wrinkled by the years and with lungs which bore witness to decades of smoking. Late one night and after a long weekend on-call, I received a message from admissions telling me of his chest infect...

WHEN A PUBLIC benefactor is neither a well-known local or national figure nor the subject of contemporary writings, an eponymous benefaction may be his only memorial. Such is the case of John Addenbrooke, who founded the hospital at Cambridge which bears his name. He spent a third of his short life of thirty-nine years in residence at Catharine Hall (now St. Catharine's College) of which he bec...