SH 1938 - 1942
Peter S. Andrews M.D. (SH 1938 – 1942)
We have been notified of the sad death of Peter Andrews who passed away on 25th November 2019, aged 94.
At Wycliffe, Peter excelled on many levels. His Old Wycliffian record shows that he was Senior Prefect, Head of House (School House) and member of the 1st XV Rugby team 1941-42. He won prizes for piano in 1940 and 1942. He was also part of the Literary Society, Debating Society, Choir, Athletics and Tennis Teams as well as working in the library. Along with other pupils of the era, Peter spent a time during the Second World War at Lampeter College, which he found to be both an amazing and unusual place.
Peter went on to St John’s College, Cambridge, where he read Natural Sciences. He then trained at The Middlesex Hospital and qualified in medicine in 1947, with a BChir and an MB. He specialised in pathology and worked – apart from National Service (as a Captain in RAMC) – at the Middlesex until 1958, when he then became consultant pathologist at Kettering General Hospital.
He helped to build the services of the pathology laboratory as the hospital expanded and worked in all branches of pathology besides his own speciality of histo-pathology. He particularly liked the opportunities to discuss patients and their diagnoses with clinical consultants and general practitioners.
While at the Middlesex Hospital he realised how much he enjoyed teaching individuals and groups, and he continued this, as opportunity arose at Kettering.
In 1970 he was invited to train as a Forensic Pathologist, which he practised part-time along with his hospital work for 20 years until retirement in 1990. He enjoyed working with both the Police and the legal profession, including the working of the courts.
Peter was also a Fellow of The Royal College of Pathologists and at his funeral service, he was described as being ‘a doctor without borders’.
He was very much a family man, being married to Josephine for nearly 70 years with 5 children and fifteen grandchildren.
