John Geater

John Geater was born in Shrewsbury, attended King Edward’s School, Birmingham, and then Birmingham University, where he graduated in 1967.

Their strong Christian faith led him and his wife, Jane, to work in Bhutan with the Leprosy Mission between 1970 and 1975. He was the medical superintendent of Gida Kom Hospital, then hospital director at Mongar, and head of the national leprosy control programme. They returned to the UK via New Zealand in 1976, and John joined the Wellington Square Surgery, where he was a GP from …