Tony Dornhorst
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Antony Clifford Dornhorst CBE, FRCP (1915–2003) was a British physician and medical educator, described as "one of the outstanding academic clinician-scientists of his generation".[1]
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| Born | Antony Clifford Dornhorst 2 April 1915 |
| Died | 9 March 2003 (aged 87) |
| Education | St Clement Danes School |
| Alma mater | St Thomas's Hospital Medical School |
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Dornhorst was born on 2 April 1915 in Woodford, Essex.[1] His father was a company director of Dutch descent; his mother was a musician.[1]
He was educated at St Clement Danes School, but did not attend school between the ages of 12 and 14.[1] He subsequently studied medicine at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School.[1] At the age of 23, he became the youngest member of the Royal College of Physicians.[1]
He was in the Royal Army Medical Corps in World War II in Palestine, north Africa, Italy, and the senior physician in Berlin with the rank of lieutenant colonel.[1] In Berlin that he met Helen, a Royal Army Medical Corps radiologist who later became his wife.[1]
He was appointed a reader in medicine at St Thomas's in 1949 and became a consultant there in 1951.[1]
He held the foundation chair of medicine at St George's Hospital Medical School from 1959 to 1980.[1]
Serving on the Himsworth committee on matters relating to Northern Ireland, he once inhaled CS gas to better understand its effects.[1]
He was a member of the Medical Research Council from 1973 to 1977.[2]
He was made a Commander of the Order of British Empire (CBE) in 1977 as part of the Silver Jubilee and Birthday Honours.[3]
He died on 9 March 2003.[1]
