Keith Llewellyn Rogers

The only son of television pioneer Keith Dudley Ulysses Rogers OBE and his wife, Gladys Evans, Keith Llewellyn Rogers was raised in pre-war Radlett before boarding at Llandovery School from age 9. After house jobs and three years’ national service in Minden, Germany, he returned to the Middlesex Hospital before taking a post in the North London Transfusion Service.

In 1970 Keith became director of the South London Blood Transfusion Centre in its new premises in Tooting, serving between 60 and 70 hospitals across the South-east and South-west Thames regions and with eight daily donor sessions collecting the weekly requirement of around 5000 donations. For the following 20 years he drove the centre through the modernisations and innovations …