Peter Carew Reynell

After qualification and four years in the Royal Army Medical Corps, Peter Carew Reynell worked in academic medicine at Oxford, researching liver diseases. He was awarded a Rockefeller travelling fellowship (1953) and was coauthor of the UK’s most popular textbook on gastroenterology.

He moved to Bradford in 1957. While developing new arrangements for coronary care, he continued to publish in the BMJ until his retirement. He was first chair of the local division of medicine, and his numerous regional and national roles included vice chair of the National Association of Clinical Tutors; regional adviser to the Royal College of Physicians; director of the Yorkshire Cancer Research Campaign; chair of the Regional Higher Distinction Awards Committee; general medical adviser to the minister of health at the Department of Health; and external examiner at several universities.

His greatest sporting achievement was to score a century at Lord’s for Rugby, his school, but tennis was his strongest suit (half-blue at Oxford). He had an astonishing range of interests and knowledge. A natural linguist, he led French and German conversation groups into his 90s, when he was also producing experimental abstract digital images. He was persuaded to write a brief memoir, which is available from carew.reynell{at}gmail.com. He leaves a wife, Julia; three sons; and eight grandchildren.