Harbaksh Singh Capoore
BMJ 2004; 328 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.328.7455.1570-a (Published 24 June 2004) Cite this as: BMJ 2004;328:1570Data supplement
Harbaksh Singh Capoore
Former consultant psychiatrist Bexley Hospital and honorary consultant Kent and Canterbury Hospital (b Lucknow, India, 1917; q Leeds 1943; DPM, MD, FRCPsych), died from carcinomatosis on 23 August 2003.
Buns, as he was known to his friends and colleagues, was born in Lucknow. He had a Sikh upbringing, and was educated in Agra, near to the Taj Mahal. He came to England in 1934, studying initially dentistry in Leeds, qualifying in 1941 and then later qualifying in medicine in 1944. He married his wife, Olive, in 1942 and after the war had planned to return to India, but, as circumstances were unfavourable, decided to settle in England and embark on a career in psychiatry. In 1949 he was appointed consultant to Bexley Hospital and later additionally consultant psychiatrist to St Vincent’s Approved School.
As a psychiatrist he had a deep and continuing interest in patients of all ages and always valued the opinion of other colleagues in their management. He was a very staunch colleague and friend with much wisdom, which was frequently valued in committee. During his career he witnessed and participated in the great changes in psychiatry, among which included the coming of the antipsychotic and antidepressant medications, the opening of locked wards, and the eventual closure of the large mental hospitals.
His wife predeceased him in 1985, three years after he had retired. Until a few months before his death he attended regularly paediatric ward rounds and other medical rounds at Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup, as well as at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital. He frequently showed that he was well up to date with the literature and published his last medical paper in 1998. Apart from a life long interest in medicine, his hobbies included gardening, travel (including two trips to Antarctica and China), and fast cars. He continued to drive his Porsche to within a few weeks of his death. He leaves an only daughter, Penny. [P Capoore, M Hirons, J Hood]
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