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The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 275 No 7360 p151-152
30 July 2005


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Obituaries & tributes

Clint Brown John Reece TRIBUTES
Bernard Roy Lewis Abraham Arie Sider Mark Billington
Idris Price Lewis Arthur Waring Bernard Roy Lewis
Jack Emmott Procter Margaretta (“Peggy”) May Hart Wright  

Brown On 23 July, Clint Brown, MRPharmS, of 30 Lynfield Road, Frome, Somerset BA11 4JB. Mr Brown registered in 2001.

Lewis Recently, Bernard Roy Lewis, MRPharmS, of 81 Park Lane, Coningsby, Lincoln LN4 4SL. Mr Lewis registered in 1963. (Tribute)

Lewis On 23 June, Idris Price Lewis, FRPharmS, of Flat 3, Harcourt, 80 Musgrave Road, Durban 4001, South Africa. Mr Lewis registered in 1945.

Procter On 6 July, Jack Emmott Procter, MRPharmS, of 42 Elm Road, Congleton, Cheshire CW12 4PR. Mr Procter registered in 1941.

Reece Recently, John Reece, FRPharmS, of Flat 2, 20 Crediton Hill, West Hampstead, London NW6 1HP. Mr Reece registered in 1951.

Sider On 18 July, Abraham Arie Sider, of PO Box 2086, Urb. Elvivia, Marbella 29600, Spain. Mr Sider registered in 1952.

Waring On 21 May, Arthur Waring, of 164 Ryfields Village, Orford, Warrington, Cheshire WA2 7GD. Mr Waring registered in 1939. He was a locum pharmacist in Sheffield for many years.

Wright Recently, Margaretta (“Peggy”) May Hart Wright, MRPharmS, of Flat 35, Gresham Court, 11 Pampisford Road, Purley, Surrey CR8 2UU. Mrs Wright registered in 1937. She was a retired hospital pharmacist and widow of Joseph Wright, former director of the National Pharmaceutical Association and its associated organisations.

Tribute

Billington In a tribute to the late Mark Billington, who died in a road accident on 21 July 2004, JENNIFER SCURRELL, KATE LINDSAY, JO-ANN HENLEY, LUCY POWELL, LAUREN ROBINSON and EMILY STUBBERFIELD write, on behalf of fellow graduates of Portsmouth School of Pharmacy:

As the results of the 2005 registration examination are announced, we would like to remember Mark Billington, who sadly died shortly after graduation. We know he would have been successful in the registration examination and would have made a fantastic pharmacist.


Lewis In a tribute to the late Bernard Lewis (see p151), GRAHAM WALKER writes:

Bernard Lewis was a Welshman who gave his life to pharmacy in Lincolnshire. In the 1970s, when the profession was in the doldrums, Bernard led the Lincolnshire Local Pharmaceutical Committee team, which rapidly developed to include two members of Council (Noel Baumber and myself) and the chairman of the National Pharmaceutical Association (Don Ross).

Bernard, as chairman of the LPC, quietly but forcibly led us forward. It was he who led the midnight raid on the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee and persuaded it to support our demand for a standstill on dispensing by doctors. The acceptance of our argument went on to form the basis of the Clothier agreement and the relative peace we have in our rural areas. However, Bernard was no paper pharmacist. His pharmacies in the Lincolnshire Wolds gave excellent service in an area where this was short.

I was fortunate in having Bernard as my LPC chairman and also chairman of the small company we operated in the county. Always ready to alter his life to help a colleague, Bernard was a man anyone would be proud to call a friend.

Now, at such an early age, we have lost our friend from Lincolnshire. His memorial consists of rural pharmacies throughout the land. It is no exaggeration to say that many of them owe their continued existence to Bernard Lewis and his merry men from Lincolnshire.

Our love and sympathy go to Barbara and his sons. They have lost a noble man whose contribution to pharmacy can never be repaid.

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