Former consultant physician at Greenisland and Whiteabbey hospitals, Northern Ireland (b 1926; q Queen’s University, Belfast, 1950; FRCPI, OBE), died from liver cancer on 27 November 2004

Bill did his national service in the Royal Army Medical Corps, serving in the Suez Canal zone. After working in hospitals in Doncaster, Cheltenham and Bournemouth, he returned to Northern Ireland as consultant physician in geriatric medicine. He was chairman of the the University of Ulster’s ethical committee and a member of Northern Health Board. He became a justice of the peace in 1977. He leaves a wife, Elsie, three children; and four grandchildren
D H Allen

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