Peter Davison Knights
General practitioner Norwich (b China 1940; q Middlesex Hospital 1964;
DRCOG), died from a cerebral glioma on 10 November 2003.
Peter’s parents ran a leper hospital during invasion and civil war and
were evacuated with 5 year old Peter on the last plane out. He rarely spoke
of what he saw at that time, but it undoubtedly informed his approach to
medicine and to life. A partner in the same inner city practice for 30
years, he lived in the present, with great enthusiasm, wit, and humour,
as he pursued his medical and many other interests. An instinctive GP,
he was an imaginative diagnostician who truly loved his work, and who,
after retirement and VSO in Cameroon, did as much locum work as he could
find time for.
His chief love outside medicine was sailing, at which he competed nationally.
He leaves his wife, Sue, to whom he was very happily married; three
children; two grandchildren; and very many friends. [B S Cole]