Richard Paul Hyde Dunnill

Richard Dunnill was born in Bexhill, Sussex, where his father was a general practitioner-anaesthetist. He was the youngest of three siblings. He was educated at Charterhouse, Guildford, and then moved on to Guy’s Hospital Medical School to follow in his father’s footsteps. He became a consultant anaesthetist in Poole and Bournemouth in 1977.

At the old Victoria Hospital in Boscombe he established himself as an expert in intensive care. He soon became the lead consultant in …