The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 280 No 7493 p321
15 March 2008

Society summary

DEATHS

TRIBUTES

Herbert Searle Grainger

Grainger On 6 March, Herbert Searle Grainger, aged 91, of Tovislands, Middle Street, Nazeing, Waltham Abbey, Essex EN9 2LH.

Mr Grainger registered in 1939 and retired from the Register in 2006. After 18 years as chief pharmacist at Westminster Hospital, London, Mr Grainger was head of the technical secretariat of the European Pharmacopeia Commission from 1965 to 1980. In recognition of this he was elected an honorary member of the Nobile Collegio Chimico Farmaceutica Romana in 1981.

At the time he was the only non-Italian member. He was also secretary of the Hospital Pharmacy Section of the International Pharmaceutical Federation. Mr Grainger, who was a Methodist preacher, was President of the Pharmaceutical Society from 1961–62 and a member of its Council from 1954–64.

Funeral: 11.30am on 25 March, at Parndon Wood Crematorium, Harlow, followed by service of thanksgiving at Hoddesdon Methodist Church at 2.30pm. Donations in lieu flowers to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Benevolent Fund.


Huntley On 4 March, Dorothy Joan Huntley (née Gleed), aged 78, of 73 St Aidans Road, St George, Bristol BS5 8RW.
Mrs Huntley registered in 1952 and retired from the Register in 2003.
(See tribute)


Kitchener On 28 February, John Henry Kitchener, aged 77, of 4 Ellenborough Crescent, Weston-super-Mare BS23 1XL.
Mr Kitchener registered in 1951 and retired from the Register in 2004.


MacDonald In August 2007, Iain Charles Erskine MacDonald, MRPharmS, aged 67, of 18 Rathmichael Park, Shankill, County Dublin, Ireland.
Mr MacDonald registered in 1965.

Tributes

Huntley In a tribute to the late Dorothy Joan Huntley, Stuart Moul, Avon Local Pharmaceutical Committee secretary, writes:

We are deeply saddened by the passing away of Dorothy Huntley on Tuesday 4 March 2008, in Frenchay Hospital, Bristol. I had the pleasure of serving with Dorothy when she was chairman of the Bristol branch of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society from 1984–85 and also when she was a committee member of Avon LPC.

Dorothy and her husband Arthur were both graduates of the Bristol School of Pharmacy and worked for many years in their community pharmacy in St George, Bristol. After their retirement Dorothy retained an active interest in the local branch regularly attending the meetings.

It has been a pleasure and delight knowing Dorothy who was a member of the “old school” and will be greatly missed by us all.