Beresford Roger Melville Crook

bmj;379/nov01_8/o2616/FAF1faBeresford Roger Melville Crook (“Berry”) trained as a cardiologist in several London hospitals and carried out research with the British Heart Foundation and the Medical Research Council. He moved to Rotterdam, Netherlands, in 1977, where he introduced many new techniques, such as pacing, ablation, tilt testing, catheterisation, and electrophysiology. On returning to England in 1991 he worked part time as a consultant cardiologist in the Bristol area until 2007. He enjoyed gardening and cooking. His last publication was in 2009. Latterly he had dementia, and died from a myocardial infarction at home, leaving his wife, Priscilla, who was an anaesthetic theatre sister.
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