LMITransactions&Report2014-15

LMI Transactions and Report 2014 - 2015
PETER KENNETH MAKIN ROSTRON
Peter grew up in Southport
where his father was a GP
and was educated at King
George V School. A keen
athlete he represented the
school at rugby and
captained the cricket team
and informs me he once ran
100 yards in 10.2 seconds.
He qualified from Liverpool Medical School in 1967.
After demonstrating anatomy for a year, he started on
his career then had a year out as a ship’s surgeon with
P & O circumnavigating the globe.
He returned to Liverpool, completed his rotational
training in orthopaedics and was appointed as a
General Orthopaedic Surgeon at Whiston and St
Helens in 1979, with particular interest in paediatric
orthopaedics. He provided his expertise to St Helens
and Widnes rugby league clubs as well as Everton for
over twenty years.
He is married to his wife Christine and has three
daughters and five grandchildren.
He resigned from the Health Service in 1995 but
continued in practice until 2007 and still does some
medico-legal work.
He is a keen golfer, captained Birkdale in 1998 and
presented Mark O’Meara with the Claret Jug in 1998.
When not playing golf, he plays bridge, watches birds
and looks after hens and a few sheep on his farm in
Ormskirk.
Max McCormick
JOHN SEAGER
Dr John Seager was educated
at Malvern College before
coming to Liverpool for his
medical degree. He specialised
in paediatrics, training first in
Liverpool, then at Great
Ormond Street Hospital, The
Institute of Child Health and
University Hospital Wales in
Cardiff. His interests included
paediatric immunology and allergy and he was a
Consultant Paediatrician at Arrowe Park Hospital
Wirral, where he became the Clinical Director for
Paediatrics.
One of his happiest achievements at that time was to
move some aspects of paediatric care out of the
hospital environment into the community. This
involved further developing the Hospital at Home
team and setting up a day ward so that more children
could be treated at home with their families. This he
achieved not without some political skill in convincing
local politicians of the need to close a children’s ward
to make this happen. Now in a well earned
retirement with his wife Liz, he enjoys electrical
things, languages and growing things you can eat.
He is most welcome as a Life Member at the LMI, an
Institution his father was President of in 1973 (the year
of my birth).
Austin McCormick
WILLIAM (BILL) TAYLOR
William Taylor, known
when he worked in the
Royal’s pathology
department as “the nice Bill
Taylor”, graduated from
Liverpool Medical School in
1969. He had been
educated at the Liverpool
Collegiate School and his
house jobs were at the
David Lewis Northern
Hospital. It was here that his mind was turned in the
direction of pathology and he was inspired by Dr
Winston Evans. He was unwilling to give up direct
contact with patients so soon after qualifying, but a
year as an SHO in obstetrics at the Liverpool Maternity
Hospital, passing the DObst RCOG examination,
confirmed his view that pathology was the career for
him. As a trainee, Bill recalls the great influence of
such icons as Alan Cruickshank, Charles St Hill, David
Weatherall and Alan Percival.
As a lecturer then senior lecturer in the University
Department of Pathology his interest in pulmonary
pathology was shaped by Donald Heath and in
gastroenterology by Alan Cruickshank.
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