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MB ChB 1945 (NZ); FRCS(Eng) 1952; FRACS 1958; 3 February 1922-26 November 2009
Tim was born in Egypt where his father was stationed as a doctor with the Indian Medical Service of the British Army after the First World War. He spent his youth in India and came to New Zealand to attend boarding school at 10 years of age.
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He was an accomplished sportsman, scholar and head boy of Kings College, Auckland--the city in which his parents later settled when they retired after a lifetime in India.
Tim's parents chose New Zealand as the country they wished to educate their family of 8 children in and it was the country Tim came to love and dedicate his life to.
Tim graduated from Otago Medical School in 1945 where he had been a resident at Selwyn College and a winger for the Senior Meds rugby team. He spent the next year as an Anatomy Demonstrator before taking employment at Palmerston North Hospital where he was House Surgeon/Physician for 2 years followed by a year as Surgical Registrar.
After 18 months in General Practice in Rotorua, he moved to Britain where he was House Surgeon at Hammersmith Hospital for 6 months before moving to the Sully Chest Hospital in Wales for the next 3 years which included a period of 6 months as an exchange House Surgeon at the Brompton Hospital. In London he married his Irish wife, Therese (or Terry), and they had their first daughter while working in Wales.
In 1955, he returned to New Zealand to Wellington Hospital as fulltime Thoracic...