Brown Recently, Ronald Brown, MRPharmS, of 1 Laverstock, Boscombe Cliff Road, Boscombe, Bournemouth, Dorset. Mr Brown registered in 1935.
Hugo On September 11, William Barry Hugo, FRPharmS, of 618 Wollaton Park, Nottingham NG8 2AA. Dr Hugo was a former reader in pharmaceutical microbiology at the school of pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences of the University of Nottingham. Professor A. D. RUSSELL writes: I first got to know Barry Hugo when, having graduated from the Welsh school of pharmacy and completed my preregistration training, I joined his research group to work on the effects of penicillins on gram-negative bacteria. Barry was an enthusiastic and helpful supervisor who had already achieved a high research reputation as a result of his work on the effects of antiseptics on bacterial enzymes and the bacterial cytoplasmic membrane. Later, he was to make significant discoveries about the role of cell wall lipid in conferring bacterial resistance to antiseptics and antibiotics. He was the author of two books in a Heinemann series on microbiology and in 1971 he produced an excellent book, ‘Inhibition and destruction of the microbial cell' (Academic Press) that rapidly became a standard work in its field throughout the world. Subsequently, I collaborated with him in producing three other books of which he was very proud, namely ‘Pharmaceutical microbiology' (Blackwell, the sixth edition of which appeared in 1998), ‘Principles and practice of disinfection, preservation and sterilisation' (Blackwell, 3rd edition, earlier this year, with Professor G. A. J. Ayliffe, University of Birmingham, as third editor) and ‘Disinfection in veterinary and farm animal practice' (Blackwell, with Professor A. H. Linton, Bristol university, as third editor). Barry was essentially a shy, reserved person who could appear somewhat aloof. Indeed, my wife and I did not really get to know him until some years after I had completed my PhD. It then became apparent that, although he did not suffer fools gladly, he had a well-developed sense of humour, was loyal to his friends and had a warm and caring side to his personality. His intellectual interests extended to archaeology and history. I considered him to be my personal mentor and we frequently discussed by telephone and letter current trends in pharmaceutical and medical microbiology. Barry has rightly been described as the "father" of modern pharmaceutical microbiology. I shall always be grateful to him for the interest and encouragement he gave me in my career and I regard myself as being privileged to have been part of what became a large and highly respected research group. Barry's wife Jean predeceased him and our sympathy goes to his son and daughter and their families.
Stuart Recently, James Fraser Bruce Stuart, MRPharmS, of c/o Harris, 30 Leaders Way, Newmarket, Suffolk CB8 0DP. Dr Stuart registered in 1973. Professor A. T. FLORENCE writes: Fraser Stuart graduated in pharmacy from the University of Strathclyde after qualifying as a laboratory technician, and while studying for his degree in pharmacy worked in the laboratories of several Glasgow hospitals. While a student of medicine at the University of Glasgow he continued the tradition, and worked in community pharmacies. After qualifying as a doctor he specialised in oncology and worked in the University of Glasgow's Cancer Research Campaign's department of clinical oncology with Professor Kenneth Calman. He drew our attention in Strathclyde to the problems of the use of many experimental cancer chemotherapeutic agents, especially in regard to their often inadequate formulation and sometimes instability. His dramatic demonstration of the precipitation of one such experimental drug in the giving set was really the birth of the Cancer Research Campaign's formulation unit at Strathclyde, which is still playing a vital role in formulating drugs for clinical trials throughout the UK. Fraser was then appointed to a unique position — a joint lectureship between the Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde — and this led to several research grants whose basis was the formulation of anticancer drugs using low density lipids, niosomes and protein microspheres as carriers. Fraser then bought a pharmacy in Helensburgh, near Glasgow, with the express aim of using the profits from it to support his research, and then he bought another and another until he had accumulated seven. He courted some controversy when he was photographed by a local paper prescribing for patients as a physician in one of his pharmacies. He disposed of them all in time and left Strathclyde and Glasgow universities, opting for a different life as a general medical practitioner in Islay before moving to England. At his funeral in Newcastle, a friend said: "Perhaps Fraser was blessed with just too many talents." Certainly he had the talent of kindness. His patients in his pharmacies and in his medical practices thought highly of him. He would drive the 30 miles or so between Helensburgh and Glasgow to retrieve a medicine for a patient and once flew from Glasgow to intervene on behalf of a friend who was lying ill in a London hospital. His training in pharmacy alerted him to the problems of chemotherapy and the CRC unit in Strathclyde must stand as one testament to his unique inputs and to his energy. He leaves a wife Lindsey, son Charles and two stepdaughters.
Wallis Recently, Margaret Wallis, FRPharmS, of Flat 1, 34 Lime Hill Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN1 1LL. Miss Wallis registered in 1933. She was a past chairman of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's South East England region and served as both treasurer and secretary of the Tunbridge Wells branch for a number of years. For many years she regularly represented the branch at events such as the British Pharmaceutical Conference and the branch representatives' meeting. She was designated a fellow of the Society in 1972.