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Return to PJ Online Home Page The Pharmaceutical Journal Vol 266 No 7143 p504
April 14, 2001

The Society

Obituaries

David Bernard Leslie Davies Peter George Nott
John Frederick Hesketh Chandrakant Kantilal Patel
John McGregor Kenneth Robert Sweetman
Peter MacMurray Peter Wells


Davies On March 8, David Bernard Leslie Davies, of 13 Cranleigh Road. Esher, Surrey KT10 8DF. Mr Davies registered in 1936.

Hesketh On March 4, John Frederick Hesketh, MRPharmS, of 2 Ledson Grove, Town Green, Aughton, Ormskirk, Lancashire. Mr Hesketh registered in 1938.

C. VICTOR HAMMOND writes: I was a fellow student with “Jack” Hesketh at the old Liverpool school of pharmacy, where both of us were studying for part II of the examinations during the late “Humph” Jones's 1937–38 session. Our aim was to become members of the Society along with 10 other students whose hereditary names began with “H”. All of us achieved this to the best of my knowledge. Soon after I qualified, I lost touch with what I choose to describe as the “H Club” when I left the Liverpool area to work in London. During the 1939–45 war, many of us served in the services and I was fortunate in being able to meet Jack for a day in late 1944 in Dimapur, Assam. We talked about going into partnership in pharmacy after the war, if we were lucky enough to survive. This was prevented when I moved to Hull in 1947.

Jack very soon owned a successful pharmacy, initially in Maghull, as a partner with another wartime pharmacist colleague, and later independently in Ormskirk, until he retired. Since he wrote to me in 1988, giving details of the 12 pharmacists who served with him in 24 Indian Base Depot Medical Store, we corresponded regularly, mainly about our shared historical, usually happy and amusing experiences.

During the past 10 years we met on a few memorable occasions and brought out the “magic carpet” of reminiscences. I shall miss him.

McGregor On August 28, 2000, John McGregor, MRPharmS, of “Maugers Bury”, 120 York Road, Market Weighton, York. Mr McGregor registered in 1946.

MacMurray On March 10, Peter MacMurray, MRPharmS, of 24 Kyle Court, Smith Street, Ayr KA7 1TF. Mr MacMurray registered in 1932.

Nott On January 28, Peter George Nott, MRPharmS, of 12 Saxon Drive, Tynemouth, North Shields, Tyne and Wear NE30 2NJ. Mr Nott registered in 1984.

Patel On February 2, Chandrakant Kantilal Patel, MRPharmS, of 23 Fairacres, Bardolph Avenue, Forestdale, Croydon, Surrey CR0 9JY. Mr Patel registered in 1975.

Sweetman On February 5, Kenneth Robert Sweetman, MRPharmS, of “Torfels”, Livesey Road, Ludlow, Shropshire SY8 1EX. Mr Sweetman registered in 1940.

Wells On March 3, Peter Wells, MRPharmS, of “St Georges”, Theescombe, Amberley, Stroud, Gloucestershire. Mr Wells registered in 1963.

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