Adrian Marston

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Jeffery Adrian Priestley Marston (15 December 1927 - 7 April 2016) was a surgeon and medical academic. [1] [2] the academic dean of the Royal Society of Medicine and the president of the society's History of Medicine Society for 2007/08. [3] [4]

His maternal great grandfather was Jeffery Allen Marston, principal medical officer to the Indian Army. [4]

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References

  1. Gulland, Anne (23 June 2016). "Adrian Marston". BMJ. 353: i3503. doi:10.1136/bmj.i3503. ISSN   1756-1833. PMID   27339424.
  2. "Marston, Jeffrey Adrian Priestley (1927 - 2016)". Royal College of Surgeons of England. Plarr's Lives of the Fellows. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
  3. Adrian Marston, former Dean and Honorary Fellow, dies aged 89. Royal Society of Medicine, 21 April 2016. Retrieved 21 June 2018. Archived 21 June 2018 at the Wayback Machine
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