George Christopher Sutton

bmj;385/apr03_4/q791/FAF1faGeorge Christopher Sutton died aged 90 on 2 March 2024 after a fall. He was born in Warsaw, where his father was an engineer and his mother a psychologist. When Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, the family embarked on a hazardous journey, first through Romania, where they stayed for six months, and then by train to Paris, where they lived briefly, until the German offensive drove them, via the French Basque coast, to England. They eventually settled in Rugby. George attended Rugby School, where he excelled, and went on to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, to study medicine (1952-55).From Cambridge, George moved to University College Hospital London for his clinical studies, qualifying in 1958. After house jobs at UCH, he went to St George’s Hospital as medical registrar, then as cardiac registrar, to Addenbrook’s Hospital, Cambridge. He spent a year (1965) in the USA as a research fellow in cardiology…
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