Patrick Alan Adam

Former general practitioner Plymstock, Plymouth (b Folkestone 1918; q Edinburgh 1942), died 30 March 2003.

Shortly after qualifying Pat joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and served as a medical officer on the Russian convoys bound for Murmansk. After the second world war he trained in psychiatry, obtaining the DPM and working for a time at St Andrew’s Hospital, Northampton. In 1954 he started in general practice in Plymstock, where he stayed until retirement in 1983, exemplifying throughout all the virtues of the traditional family doctor. Humorous and urbane he would host, with his wife, Isobel, the most magnificent dinner parties. A man of wide interests, Pat was a prizewinning gardener and an accomplished sailor, skier, and golfer, though his deepest pleasure and satisfaction derived from his family. He is survived by his wife, three children, seven grandchildren, and two great grandchildren. [Justin Robbins]