Published 4 November 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b4461
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;339:b4461

Obituaries

David Gordon Illingworth

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After a house job at Leith Hospital, David Gordon Illingworth served a year as a surgeon lieutenant on an antisubmarine sloop in which he saw a great deal of action. His next appointment was as a naval medical officer at Batavia, where a bitter war raged between the Dutch and the Indonesians.

On demobilisation he worked for four years at the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh and then entered general practice. Here he found his ideal occupation, wrote his MD thesis, and in 1996 was awarded a Nuffield scholarship to travel to America. In 1970 he was appointed physician to the royal household in Scotland.

Ill health forced his retirement in 1980, but for another 20 years he continued to enjoy his golf and his weekly game of bridge.

In 2003 he published an autobiography, The Bridge with Broken Arches, in which he paints an evocative account of his . . . [Full text of this article]

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