Pharic Nelson Gillibrand

Pharic Nelson Gillibrand was appointed as consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist to the Southampton hospitals in 1969 within a year of the establishment of the medical school there. He joined what was, essentially, a large district general hospital and by the time of his death, over 50 years later, it had become a centre of world class clinical medicine and surgery and a highly respected medical school. Many people shared in the leadership to that success, but the support of the NHS consultant staff was critical for it, and Pharic was an exemplary exponent and leader of that support throughout the whole of his tenure.

Pharic was schooled at Lord Wandsworth College in Long Sutton, Hampshire, which …