William Goodhugh Dawson

bmj;386/aug08_14/q1736/FAF1faWilliam Goodhugh Dawson was born in Coulsdon, Surrey, and studied medicine at Christ’s College, Cambridge, and St Bartholomew’s Hospital, qualifying in 1949. After house jobs he became a junior resident anaesthetist at Barts, anaesthetising for James Paterson Ross.He did national service in Libya as a provincial medical officer with the Royal Army Medical Corps.On his return to England, he again took up anaesthetics but contracted tuberculosis and spent a year in Ventnor on the Isle of Wight to recover. While working in Southampton General Hospital he met and married Margaret Hayward. After some years of general practice in Hereford, he returned to Libya with his wife and two young children.On returning to England he joined the RAF and in 1976 was appointed consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at the Cameron Hospital, Hartlepool. He concentrated on assisted reproduction procedures.Although he retired in 1990 he continued with GP locums into his 80s. His…
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