Tim Baker

bmj;386/aug30_4/q1866/FAF1faJohn Timothy Baker was born in Glanamman in the Swansea Valley, the son of John, a non-conformist congregational minister, and Florence, a teacher of English and drama. Tim spent the first eight years of his life in Glanamman, speaking Welsh as his first language. His father moved several times in his career and Tim’s later education was in Yorkshire, at Batley Grammar School, and at King Edward’s School, Birmingham. He excelled at school and decided on a medical career, qualifying from St George’s Hospital, London, in 1962 with the Brackenbury prize for medicine.After house jobs on the professorial medical unit at St George’s at Atkinson Morley Hospital, he undertook further junior training posts at St George’s and at St Stephen’s Hospital. He then moved to St Peter’s, St Paul’s, and St Philip’s hospitals in Holborn, as a renal registrar working with Adolf Joeckes, and to the Middlesex Hospital where he…
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