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Adams On 8 August, Jeffrey George
Adams, MRPharmS, of 75 Elliott Avenue, East Ryde, New South Wales 2113,
Australia. Mr Adams registered in 1971
(tribute).
Boswell On 30 August, Elizabeth Mary Boswell (née Smethurst), MRPharmS,
of 20 The Heights, Foxgrove Road, Beckenham, Kent BR3 5BY. Mrs Boswell registered
in 1970.
Culshaw On 22 August, Richard Edward Culshaw, MRPharmS, of “Culdene”,
15a Main Street, Warton, Carnforth, Lancashire LA5 9NR. Mr Culshaw registered
in 1937.
Georgi On 16 August, Adel Farouk Georgi, MRPharmS, of 91 The Drive, Harrow, Middlesex
HA2 7EJ. Mr Georgi registered in 1995.
Kent On 12 August, Ronald Kent, MRPharmS, of 15 Queen’s Haugh, Carnock,
Dunfermline, Fife KY12 9GQ. Mr Kent registered in 1937.
Lumley On 2 September, John Alick Lumley,
of 146 Main Street, Swithland, Loughborough, Loughborough LE12 8TJ. Mr Lumley
registered in 1939 and retired from the Register
in 2002. He began his career in community pharmacy but after war service in the
Royal Air Force he moved into the pharmaceutical industry, working at first both
in Britain and abroad for Boots Pure Drug Co Ltd. He joined Riker Laboratories
in 1951, becoming chairman and managing director of Riker in the UK and also
a director of the Riker companies in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South
Africa. He was elected chairman of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical
Industry in 1967. He was designated a fellow of the Society in 1968 (tribute).
Sawyer On 20 August, Tom Sawyer, MRPharmS, of 97 The Links,
Whitley Bay, Tyne
and Wear NE26 4NQ. Mr Sawyer registered in 1953.
Whitehouse On 25 August, Doreen Mary Whitehouse, MRPharmS, of 14 Home Farm Court,
Greenway Lane, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire GL52 6LA. Miss Whitehouse
registered in 1951.
Wing On 7 September, Ronald Arthur Wing, CBE, FRPharmS, of Broad Oak, Cliff Road,
Hythe, Kent CT21 5XL. Dr Wing registered in 1947. After eight years as a community
pharmacist he joined the Wellcome Foundation Ltd in 1956 as a medical representative
and rose rapidly to become marketing manager. He was marketing manager of the
Boots Co Ltd from 1967 to 1970, when he moved of Reckitt & Colman Ltd as
general manager and then chairman of the pharmaceutical division. He also became
chairman of a small company jointly owned by Reckitt and the French company Sanofi.
When it became a wholly owned subsidiary of Sanofi in 1980 he relinquished his
Reckitt post to spend the next 10 years building up Sanofi’s British operation.
By 1990, when he retired as chairman and chief executive, Sanofi Ltd employed
400 staff. Dr Wing was designated a fellow of the Pharmaceutical Society in 1978
and served as an auditor of the Society from 1985 to 1990 and as chairman of
the Society’s panel of fellows for several years. He was elected a vice-president
of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry in 1981 and president
in 1983. In 1985 he was made CBE for service to the pharmaceutical industry.
Funeral: noon, 20 September, Charing Crematorium, Charing, Kent. Family flowers
only; donations to Action Medical Research (www.action.org.uk).
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Tribute
Adams In a tribute to the late Jeffrey
George Adams,
R. H. FOUNTAIN writes:
Jeff Adams was a student of the Welsh School of
Pharmacy from 1961 to 1964. After graduating he undertook research in
pharmacology under the direction of Professor Paul Nicholls and was awarded
a PhD (Wales).
Jeff started his career in the research laboratories of Wyeth Pharmaceuticals
at Taplow. Subsequently, after gaining much needed experience, he obtained a
position with Janssen & Janssen, where he became experienced in dealing with
new drug registration and information. His value was highly evident when the
company offered him a move to Sydney, Australia, to a similar position.
Jeff accepted the position and moved with his wife and two young daughters to
Sydney, where they embraced the Australian way of life. Jeff’s job and
responsibility grew with the company, which became absorbed into the Johnson & Johnson
group. At the time of his death Jeff had reached a senior position within the
group and was a well-respected expert in his field.
Jeff loved his work and also the outdoor life that the better climate in Sydney
was able to offer, so that he could continue with his walks and his love of swimming.
However, even though in Australia he was still interested in the progress of
Cardiff City Football Club.
I knew Jeff before I married his twin sister as I, too, was a graduate of Cardiff.
We shall miss his trips to this country, where we shared a love of sport and
the odd beer or two.
He loved to keep up with all the pharmacy news and I often tried to persuade
him to return to do a few locums for me, but Jeff was not to be persuaded.
My thoughts are with his wife Valerie and daughters Caroline and Vanessa and
of course his twin sister my wife. I have lost a fine brother-in-law, colleague
and friend.
Lumley In a tribute to the late John
Alick Lumley, MICHAEL
PERETZ writes:
John Lumley, who died after a long illness on 2 September,
was one of the small band of pharmacists — including, among others,
Reg Hoare, Frank Goulding, Laurie Spalton and John Fingerhut — who,
following the 1929–45 war, laid the foundations of what has become
the highly successful British pharmaceutical industry.
He and I met on the pharmacy course of what was then University College
Nottingham in 1938 and we and our families had remained firm friends
ever since.
John had followed his elder brother Robert (who later became head of Boots
in India) into pharmacy. After qualifying in 1939 he and I found ourselves
dispensing at either end of Harley Street in London, he at Wigmore Street and
me at Marylebone High Street, throughout the London blitz years of 1940–41,
before we both left to join the armed services.
He joined the Royal Air Force and trained as a pilot/navigator in Canada, where
he was so highly esteemed that after receiving his wings he was retained as
an instructor, although he did see active service in the Far East towards the
end of the war.
Quite by chance we met again in Nottingham in early 1946 when we were interviewed
on the same day by Boots for employment following demobilisation. John then
spent four years in South Africa and what was then Rhodesia, promoting prescription
drugs to doctors and pharmacists. On his return to England in 1951 he accepted
a job to head up the newly formed Riker (later to become 3M Health Care Ltd),
literally starting off with nothing but a handful of imported products, From
this modest beginning John built up a thriving manufacturing and marketing
business based in Loughborough and he also became responsible for much of the
company’s international business.
In the mid- to late-1960s he played a major role in the affairs of the Association
of the British Pharmaceutical Industry, in what were difficult years for the
industry in its dealings with government. He had always been a strong believer
in the accountability and social responsibility of the pharmaceutical industry,
and his election as president of the ABPI in 1967 bears witness to the esteem
in which he was held by his industry colleagues.
After his retirement in 1976, he followed a long felt desire to return to community
pharmacy and took over a small pharmacy in Quorn, Leicestershire, where he
became a popular and valued father figure.
Always very much a family man, he sadly lost his wife Marjorie some four years
ago, but his daughters Jackie and Bobbie, to whom he was always a fond, kind
and generous father, were an enormous comfort to him, especially in his last
few months.
He was meticulous and painstaking in everything he did. I valued him greatly
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