Roland Geoffrey Gibbs

1923-2015

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b.22 June 1923 d.17 October 2015

MB BChir Cantab(1948) MRCS LRCP(1948) MRCP(1954) FRCP(1974)

This biography is part of a series of historical obituaries, originally published in print. As products of their time periods, some biographies contain language which is inappropriate and offensive and present biased accounts of physicians’ lives and work that do not disclose unethical and discriminatory behaviour. As an establishment organisation, the RCP, its members, and the way they are written about, have often reflected societal power structures that favour dominant groups. We aim to redress these biases through ongoing work.

Below is the biography as originally published between 2005 and 2018.

Roland Geoffrey Gibbs (known as Ronnie) was a consultant physician at Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft. He was the son of Geoffrey Gibbs, a farmer, and Edith Sophia Barber, the daughter of a bookseller, and was educated at Norwich School and Gresham’s School. He went on to study at Cambridge University and St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School. He qualified in 1948.

He was a casualty officer and house officer at St Thomas’ Hospital, and then a house physician at Brompton Hospital. From 1952 to 1954 he was a medical registrar at St Peter’s Hospital, Chertsey. He then became a medical registrar at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge.

In 1956 he was appointed as a senior hospital medical officer at Lowestoft Hospital, becoming a consultant physician there in 1963. From 1967 he was a consultant physician to Great Yarmouth hospitals.

Outside medicine he was interested in farming and enjoyed yachting.

In 1948 he married Joan Margaret Wiles. They had a daughter, Caroline, and three sons, Jeremy, Jonathan and Sam, and nine grandchildren.

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