Peter Gatenby (doctor)

Peter Barry Brontë Gatenby (1923 – 24 August 2015[1] in Sandycove, County Dublin[2]) was an Irish doctor, Medical Director for the United Nations and Professor of Medicine at Trinity College, Dublin. He was Ireland’s first full-time professor of clinical medicine.[3][4]

Family

Gatenby was the son of the zoologist James Brontë Gatenby and was related to the Brontë family. He had a wife, Yvette, two children, Robin and Odette, and six grandchildren.[5]

Career

In 2002, the Peter Gatenby Award was founded at Trinity College, Dublin.[6]

Works
  • The school of physic: Trinity College Dublin : a retrospective view, 1994
  • History of the Meath Hospital, 1996
gollark: In many cases you just need to have *a degree* of some sort, even if it's completely pointless, because it shows... that you have the patience to do a thing for 4 years or something??
gollark: Or, well, are just short of it.
gollark: So you just have costs go up until they don't reach the limit!
gollark: I mean, if you have a government policy saying "you'll get whatever education you want, free*", the government cannot just go "we'll not buy from you if you increase the price too much".
gollark: How does *that* work?

References
  1. https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/articles/trinity-community-mourns-the-death-of-peter-gatenby-hon-ftcd/5897#.VeXdZvZViko
  2. http://notices.irishtimes.com/death/gatenby-peter-barry/43290467
  3. June Shannon (16 Sep 2010). "Laying the clinical cornerstone". The Medical Independent. Retrieved 9 April 2012.
  4. http://www.imt.ie/features-opinion/2012/08/pin-pointing-a-pioneer-in-modern-radiotherapy.html
  5. http://notices.irishtimes.com/death/gatenby-peter-barry/43290467
  6. http://www.medicine.tcd.ie/bulletin/july_2007/peter_gatenby_award.php

Donal G Weir, The Feds, An Account of the Federated Dublin Voluntary Hospitals 1961-2005

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