Published 3 July 2008, doi:10.1136/bmj.a214
Cite this as: BMJ 2008;337:a214

Obituaries

Anthony Reynold Lucius Weekes

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Anthony Reynold Lucius Weekes ("Tony") was born in St Philip in Barbados. He was the son of a prominent parliamentarian in the Bajan government, the only boy of a family of eight sisters. His pioneering instincts were first evident when he applied for and obtained a scholarship to study medicine in Calcutta. Afterwards he came to England and worked at Oldchurch, Hackney, and Tottenham Hospitals while completing his postgraduate studies. He became a senior registrar at Liverpool Women’s Hospital and was appointed a consultant at the Rush Green Hospital, Romford, in 1976. This hospital later merged with Harold Wood and Oldchurch Hospital to become Queen’s Hospital.

He was always an innovator and was one of the early exponents of colposcopic and laparoscopic/endoscopic techniques when these were relatively new to medical and surgical practice.

He was later to become a founding member and chairman of the newly formed minimal invasive and . . . [Full text of this article]

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