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Brown On 25 November, Eileen Alice Brown, MRPharmS, of Room 107, Warwick
Park Nursing and Residential Home, 55 Warwick Park, Tunbridge Wells TN2
5EJ. Mrs Brown registered in 1928 and was the last surviving life member
of the Society (see p893).
Faulks On 15 November, Allan James
Faulks, FRPharmS, of 20 Fairhill Crescent,
Perthshire PH1 1RR. Mr Faulks registered in 1939.
Jones On 28 October, David Emlyn Jones, of The Lindens, Gannock Park, Deganwy,
Conwy, Gwynedd. Mr Jones registered in 1925 and retired from the register in
2000.
Keep Recently, Thomas Michael John Keep, MRPharmS, of 100b Wrotham Road, Gravesend,
Kent DA11 0QH. Mr Keep registered in 1962.
King On 13 November, John King, MRPharmS, of 7 Willow Avenue, Kirkintilloch,
Glasgow G66 4RQ. Mr King registered in 1957.
Middleton On 16 October,
Brian Middleton, MRPharmS, of 44 Bath Road, Calcot Row, Reading RG31 7QJ. Mr
Middleton registered in 1956 (see Tribute)
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Tribute
Middleton In a tribute
to the late Brian
Middleton, CHARLES BUTLERwrites:
I had the pleasure and honour of knowing Brian Middleton
for over 20 years — as a friend, as a valued and respected professional
colleague, as a committed Rotarian, and as someone whose zest for life
and love of people was unsurpassed by anyone else I have ever known.
Brian was born into a Yorkshire mining family but his father wanted his
two sons to escape the mines so he encouraged both Dennis (10 years the
senior) and Brian
to continue their education. Both qualified as pharmacists and subsequently joined
Boots The Chemists.
Apart from a period of national service, initially based at Fleet, then at the
Queen Alexandra’s Military Hospital, Millbank, Brian gave loyal and unstinting
service to Boots in Doncaster, Hillingdon, Sidcup and Catford, finally moving
to the main branch at Reading in 1978.
For many years Brian served on the committee of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s
Reading branch, becoming chairman (1982–83) and then treasurer (1984–89).
His home was the focus for pharmaceutical activity in Reading for many years,
with committees and various groups meeting there regularly and enjoying the unstinting
hospitality of both Brian and his wife Joan.
Brian was an active member of the Berkshire Local Pharmaceutical Committee from
1979, his quiet and well reasoned arguments invariably holding sway in committee.
His expertise in dealing with terms of service complaints, pharmacy contract
applications and rural issues, meant that his services on the LPC were retained
on a consultancy basis well into retirement.
From 1980, until the inception of family health service authorities in 1990,
Brian was one of the pharmacy members of Berkshire Family Practitioner Committee,
where his powers of persuasion significantly helped to shape the emerging importance
of pharmacy services within primary and community care.
It was always a pleasure to visit Brian at work — to learn from him and
to witness the sheer professionalism he brought both to the practice of pharmacy
and to his role of manager.
Without doubt there are countless people, both patients and staff, who benefited
from Brian’s unflappable nature, from his common sense, from the encouragement
he gave and from the enthusiasm he showed to those who were starting out or developing
their chosen careers.
In 1997–98 Brian served as president of the Rotary Club of Reading and
in 1999 was awarded the highest accolade of Rotary, the Paul Harris Fellowship,
for his youth work.
On becoming a member, and later, chairman of the League of Friends of Reading
Hospitals, Brian revitalised the organisation. He put his management and people
skills to good use by persuading the league to open a retail unit at the Royal
Berkshire Hospital.
It is a privilege to have counted Brian among my dearest friends but I am by
no means alone, because there are so many others who will have shared this pleasure.
His passing on 16 October will inevitably leave a void in the lives of many people;
a void which will gradually fill with happy and contented memories of a life
lived to the full by a remarkable man. A human being in the fullest sense.
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