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Eldridge On 8 June, Janet Elizabeth Eldridge, MRPharmS, of 90 Redhill
Drive,
Bredbury, Stockport SK6 2HQ. Mrs Eldridge registered in 1975.
Gallagher On 19 August, Jenny Gallagher (formerly Hallson), of Brisbane,
Queensland, Australia. Mrs Gallagher was a former member of staff of
Martindale (see Tribute).
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Tribute
Gallagher In a tribute to the late Jenny
Gallagher, ANNE
PRASAD writes:
Those who worked on the 27th and 28th editions of Martindale,
and others who worked on Pharmaceutical Society publications at that
time, will be saddened to learn of the death of Jenny Gallagher (formerly
Jenny Hallson).
Jenny and her first husband came to London from Brisbane, Australia,
in the early 1970s. Jenny joined the Society to work on the revision
of Martindale’s
27th and 28th editions. She subsequently assisted in producing the 19th edition
of the Pharmaceutical Handbook before her return to Australia, in the early 1980s,
to start her family. While her two sons were young she spent some time as an
editor in Melbourne, but ultimately returned to Brisbane and to mainstream pharmacy.
Her later career was in the manufacturing industry, where she worked until shortly
before her death.
Earlier this year she rang to tell me the sombre news of her illness. She spoke
with feeling of her happy memories of her days at Bloomsbury and Lambeth and
of her colleagues and friends from those times. Her final brave words to me were: “...
and I believe I have had an interesting life”.
Jenny and her husband brought up their children in harmony, although their marriage
was to be dissolved. She remarried and her second partner nursed her with devotion
during her final illness.
She came from a large and loving family and is deeply mourned by her parents,
her many brothers and sisters, her two sons and both her partners in life. My
sympathy goes out to them all.
For me, Jenny Gallagher was a friend as well as a colleague — a fine, thoughtful
and intelligent friend. I weep that her life has been cut short but I smile to
remember those happy and productive years when we worked together on Martindale.
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