Ian Robert Verner

Former consultant anaesthetist London (b 1927; q Edinburgh 1949; DA, FRCA), died from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on 12 June 2004.

After training, which included a year at Harvard, Ian Verner was appointed to St Mark's Hospital, London, then the Middlesex, and later to St Bartholomew's Hospital. In the heyday of hypotensive anaesthesia he was one of the doyens, being particularly skilled in the use of nitroprusside. He was for a time undergraduate sub dean at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School. He continued in private practice at King Edward VII Hospital for Officers until the age of 70. In his late 50s he learnt to fly. He leaves a wife, Josephine; a daughter; and two grandchildren.