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The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 272 No 7300 p655
22 May 2004


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Obituaries & tributes

Hazel Jopson Elsie Simpson TRIBUTES
Robert Garnett Pickles Gordon Hedley Stafford Peter Ronald Scott
Benjamin Isaac Rees William Summerfield
Peter Ronald Scott Rupert William Wakeford
Philip Ralph Scrafton Patricia Vergnano

Jopson On 6 May, Hazel Jopson, MRPharmS, of 5 Stone Edge Road, Barrowford, Nelson, Lancashire BB9 6BB. Mrs Jopson registered in 1965.

Pickles On 4 May, Hugh Robert Garnett Pickles, FRPharmS, of 85 Brookmans Avenue, Brookmans Park, Hatfield, Hertfordshire AL9 7QG. Mr Pickles registered in 1953.

Rees On 27 April, Benjamin Isaac Rees, of 26 Dyffryn Road, Gorseinon, Swansea SA4 6BB. Mr Rees registered in 1938 and retired from the register in 1999.

Scott On 28 April, Peter Ronald Scott, MRPharmS, of 148 Rempstone Road, Merley, Wimborne, Dorset BH21 1SX. Mr Scott registered in 1970 (see Tribute).

Scrafton On 28 April, Philip Ralph Scrafton, of 43 Queens Road, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire PE13 2PE. Mr Scrafton registered in 1934 and retired from the register in 2001.

Simpson On 10 May, Elsie Simpson, of 14 Gordon Street, Portgordon, Buckie, Banffshire AB56 5QR. Miss Simpson registered in 1936 and retired from the register in 2000.

Stafford On 20 April, Gordon Hedley Stafford, MRPharmS, of The Penthouse, Duncan House, Old Torwood Road, Torquay TQ1 1PU. Mr Stafford registered in 1940.

Summerfield On 26 April, William Summerfield, MRPharmS, of Dochfour, 11 Duguid Street, Buckie, Banffshire AB56 1PQ. Mr Summerfield registered in 1961.

Wakeford On 19 March, Rupert William Wakeford, MRPharmS, of Trevu, 36 Porthmeor Road, St Austell, Cornwall PL25 3LX. Mr Wakeford registered in 1929.

Vergnano On 26 April, Patricia Vergnano, MRPharmS, of 14 Lustrell’s Close, Saltdean, Brighton BN2 8AS. Mrs Vergnano registered in 1943.

Tribute

Scott In a tribute to the late Peter Ronald Scott, KEITH M. WILLIAMS, secretary of the Society’s Bolton branch, writes:

It was with shock that I learnt of Peter’s sudden illness in February and great sadness at his death on 28 April at the age of 59. We became friends when we started our undergraduate studies at the Square in 1965.

He worked in North Kent after qualifying and then moved to the Poole area with his young family. He served the local community for the past 30 years, 20 of them from the same pharmacy in Broadstone.

Away from pharmacy and his family, Peter’s main interests were with the Air Training Corps, where he was a warrant officer, and in the training of a succession of retrievers as gundogs.

I will remember him for his fund of stories and a wonderful sense of humour that carried him through his illness to its conclusion.

He leaves a widow, Brenda, and four daughters.

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