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Bannister On 19 March, Charles Bannister, MBE, MRPharmS, aged 90, of
510 Kenton Road, Harrow, Middlesex HA3 9DJ. Mr Bannister registered in
1942. He was awarded the MBE in the 1996 Queen’s New Years Honours
for services to the community in Harrow, Middlesex, and in 1977 he was
awarded the Queen’s Silver Jubilee Medal. (Tribute)
Ehrbar On 13 February, Stanislaw August Ehrbar, MRPharmS, aged 96, of 12 Enmore
Road, London SW15 6LL. Mr Ehrbar registered in 1947.
Staffiere On 14 March, Francis
Robert Greig Staffiere, aged 93, of The Glen, Thors Farm Road, Thorrington, Colchester,
Essex CO7 8JJ. Mr Staffiere registered
in 1938 and retired from the Register in 2005. (Tribute)
Williams On 8 February, Norah Williams, MRPharmS, née Nyhan, aged 68,
of Poplars, 2 Sherwood Grove, Meols, Wirral, Merseyside CH47 9SL. Mrs Williams
registered in 1960.
Wong On 4 December 2006, Christopher Robert Wong, MRPharmS, aged 43, of 5 Manuka
Street, Palmerston North, 5301 New Zealand. Mr Wong registered in 1989.
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Tribute
Bannister In a
tribute to the late Charles Bannister,
SHARON CARR writes:
Charles Bannister was a charismatic character and
a great story-teller in his local community. He never let ill health
or his visual impairment stop him doing anything or joining in. He was
active to the end of his life and was studying for an Open University
degree in French.
Charles lived a full life, which included voluntary work with the lifeguard
services and athletics and fund-raising for the Westminster Multiple
Sclerosis Society
and the Royal Marsden Cancer Campaign. He organised fun walks which raised £2,000
for various charities. He founded a Lions club in London and was its first president,
and he raised funds for the Naples earthquake.
After he retired as a pharmacist he organised public meetings on drug abuse and
diabetes awareness. He served on the management committees of both Chelsea and
Kenton synagogues and was active on the national executive of the India Association.
He was involved with the town-twinning of Harrow with Douai in Northern France
and was a member of the executive of the Harrow in Europe Association. He had
been on the committees of the Kenton branches of the Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen
and Women and the Royal British Legion. He had been chairman of a London centre
for the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme and public relations officer for its Harrow
centre.
In 1989 he joined a few others to plan for the 1994 Normandy
D-Day events and raised funds to enable veterans to go to France for the commemorations.
With the same group he also planned Normandy Pageant at the Royal Albert Hall
in June 1994. He had been secretary of the West Middlesex branch of the Normandy
Veterans Association, and founder and chairman of the Harrow-based branch of
the Market Garden Veterans Association.
For most of his working life Charles worked in community pharmacy. He leaves
a wife of 70 years, Kitty, two sons, a daughter, grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Staffiere In a tribute to the late Francis
Robert Greig Staffiere, DAVID DIXON writes:
Greig Staffiere was
born at the beginning of the 1914–18 war and lived his 93 years
through a time of much trouble and change both in the world at large
and in his chosen profession
of pharmacy — a time when compounding pills, powders, potions and
ointments was commonplace and medical and pharmaceutical treatments were
an empirical art to modern day treatments in our computer age where treatments
are now scientifically and evidence based.
He was born in Edinburgh, brought up in Liverpool and served his apprenticeship
in South Kensington. London. When the 1939–45 war two broke out he joined
the army first in the Royal Engineers, transferring later to the Royal Army
Medical Corps, and was commissioned. Greig saw service on the Western Front,
crossing over to France with a forward medical field station soon after D-Day.
His wife Stella, a member of the renowned and respected Pannell family in Brightlingsea,
crossed a few days later with a field hospital in which she served as a sister.
He was mentioned in dispatches for his work on latrines. After serving in Europe
he saw out the remainder of his service in India. He left the services with
the rank of major.
Returning to civilian life, Greig worked at first as a medical representative
for May & Baker. In 1958, as a result of being headhunted by Philip Curtis,
the pharmacist who owned the Victoria Pharmacy in Brightlingsea, he was persuaded
to buy the business and settle in his wife’s native town.
He was active in local pharmaceutical circles and I remember well on my infrequent
visits to the Colchester branch meetings of the Pharmaceutical Society as a
student in the early 1960s his enthusiasm as the social secretary of the branch,
of which he also had been chairman.
On the retirement of Stan Shearman, the other pharmacist proprietor in Brightlingsea,
he purchased Shearman’s pharmacy and ran it together with the Victoria
Pharmacy with the aid of a manager. When Stella fell ill he considered selling
the businesses and retire to look after her, but tragically she died and he
decided to continue working. In 1972 I applied for the vacant post of manager
for the second pharmacy, and he offered me the job on trust with the object
of forming a partnership.
He married Eileen, who had given him much support in the shop during his difficult
time and had also kept an eye on him on the rare occasions when he was ill.
In the late 1970s the two businesses were consolidated into the Victoria Pharmacy
and a company formed with Greig as chairman and Eileen and myself as co-directors,
the other premises eventually being returned to Stan Shearman’s estate.
Eileen retired in early 1985 and Greig in June of that year after completing
the sale of his shares, being well past the age of 70. They had an active life
together for over 30 years.
Greig had a good rapport with his fellow pharmacists and was highly respected
by the local medical profession. He had a high standing locally both professionally
and socially.
He took great interest in local politics and was an elected member of the Brightlingsea
Urban District Council for a number of years and its chairman in 1966–67
and again in 1968–69. He was for many years treasurer of the Brightlingsea
Parochial Church Council and was three times chosen for the ancient ceremonial
office of Deputy of the Cinque Port Liberty of Brightlingsea.
He will be missed by many — not the least those he knew as babies in
prams who now are well into their middle age. Our condolences go to his widow
Eileen, daughter Angela, son-in-law Bob and grandsons David and Richard. |
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