Inspiring Physicians

Welcome to Inspiring Physicians, also known as Munk's Roll, our series of obituaries or biographies of fellows of the Royal College of Physicians, starting from 1518 to the present day.

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Sir Thomas Baines

b.c.1622 d.5 September 1680 AB Cantab(1642) AM(1649) MD Padua MD Cantab(1660) FRCP(1660-1) FRS

Sir Thomas Baines, MD, was the intimate and lifelong friend of Sir John Finch, MD, just mentioned, with whose history...

Sir John Finch

b.1626 d.18 November 1682 AB Oxon(1647) AM Cantab(1649) MD Padua FRCP(1660-1) FRS(1663)

Sir John Finch, MD, was the son of Sir Heneage Finch, recorder of London, the brother of Thomas earl of...

Henry Havelock Ellis

b.2 February 1859 d.8 July 1939 LSA(1889) *FRCP(1936)

Henry Havelock Ellis, who was named after a distant relation on his mother’s side, Henry Havelock, of Indian Mutiny fame...

Dorothy Christian Hare

b.14 September 1876 d.19 January 1967 CBE(1919) MB BS Lond(1905) MD(1908) DPH(1912) MRCP(1920) FRCP(1936)

Dorothy Christian Hare was born in Bath, Somerset, the daughter of Edward Hare who had been Deputy Inspector General of...

Mary Corbett

b.8 February 1933 d.17 January 2009 MB BS Lond(1957) MRCS LRCP(1957) MRCP(1962) FRCP(1977)

Mary Corbett, consultant rheumatologist at the Middlesex Hospital, London, was amongst the first to recognise that seeing patients early in...

David Robert Harvey

b.7 December 1936 d.10 April 2010 MB BS Lond(1960) MRCS LRCP(1960) DObst RCOG(1962) DCH(1963) MRCP(1963) FRCP(1976)

David Robert Harvey was a leading figure in paediatrics and neonatal medicine. Besides being paediatrician at four Royal confinements, he...

Michael Edward Shipley

b.1 February 1948 d.15 July 2022 MB BChir Cantab(1973) MRCP(1976) MD(1983) FRCP(1988)

Mike Shipley was a consultant rheumatologist, clinical lead of the department of rheumatology at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation...