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Obituaries

Peter Edward Baldry

BMJ 2016; 354 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.i3940 (Published 15 July 2016) Cite this as: BMJ 2016;354:i3940
  1. Mike Cummings

Peter Edward Baldry, father of the former conservative MP Sir Tony Baldry, was born in New Malden, Surrey. He was educated at King’s College Wimbledon, followed by reading medicine at Barts from 1938 to 1943. As a medical student during the second world war, he spent many nights on the roof of St Paul’s, fire watching. He witnessed first hand the start of the antibiotic era, and his early medical career …

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