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John Winton Tanner

BMJ 2002; 324 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.324.7339.740/j (Published 23 March 2002) Cite this as: BMJ 2002;324:740

Former general practitioner Bloxwich (b Lancaster 1924; q Birmingham 1951), died from pneumonia and dementia on 10 December 2001.

A pacifist, John served in the Friends' Ambulance Unit towards the end of the second world war. After house jobs, he entered general practice in Bloxwich. An interest in psychiatry led to a clinical assistantship and later to a sabbatical year in Hamburg and Vienna. In 1960 his strength as a swimmer enabled him to assist in the rescue of two people in danger of drowning off the Cornish coast. He leaves a wife, Marianne; two children; and two grandchildren.

[Marianne Tanner Ken Dickinson]

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