Sir Nigel Ralph Southward, KCVO (born 1941) is a retired British doctor, and apothecary to the Queen.
Southward is the son of the surgeon Sir Ralph Southward FRCP, who had been the previous apothecary to the Queen. [1] He was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge (receiving the MB BChir degree in 1965), and Middlesex Hospital Medical School. [2] [3]
He started work as a doctor at Middlesex Hospital in 1965 and became a physician at the Royal Berkshire Hospital and the Central Middlesex Hospital the following year. [2] In 1975, he was appointed Apothecary to the Queen and to the Household, [4] and to the Households of Princess Margaret, Princess Alice, and Duke and Duchess of Gloucester. [2] He was also appointed Apothecary to the Household of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother on New Year's Eve 1986. [5] Southward retired in 2003. [2]
Southward was appointed a Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order in the 1985 New Year Honours, [6] promoted to Commander in the 1995 New Year Honours, [7] and to Knight Commander on retirement in February 2003. [8]
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