Martin Bax: paediatrician and founder of controversial literary magazine Ambit

bmj;385/jun20_1/q1314/FAF1faMartin Bax, a paediatrician who specialised in child development and disability and who founded the controversial literary magazine Ambit, has died aged 90.Martin Charles Owen Bax was born in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, on 13 August 1933, to Cyril Bax, a barrister and civil servant in the Ministry of Health, and Eleanor (née Bayne), a former teacher. He was educated at Dauntsey’s School in Wiltshire, where he showed a talent for writing.AmbitBax trained in medicine at New College, Oxford, and Guy’s Hospital, where after qualifying in 1961 he became a lecturer. In 1959, while still at medical school, he founded a quarterly arts magazine. Ambit had a countercultural drive and aimed to be on the fringes of the prevailing literary and artistic culture. He edited it for more than 50 years, at home after his “day job,” alongside his small editorial team which included sculptor Eduardo Paolozzi and writer JG Ballard.Bax aimed…
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