Anton Sebastianpillai
British author and consultant geriatrician (1945–2020)
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Anton Sebastianpillai FRCP (23 January 1945 – 4 April 2020), was a British historian, author (writing as Anton Sebastian) and consultant geriatrician, of Sri Lankan Tamil origin.[1]
Anton Sebastianpillai | |
|---|---|
| Born | c. 1944 |
| Died | |
| Other name | Anton Sebastian |
| Education | Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya |
| Occupations | Consultant, geriatrician, author, lexicographer, historian, bibliophile |
| Employer | |
Biography
He had his primary and secondary education at St Sylvester's College, Kandy and trained at Peradeniya Medical School, in Sri Lanka, qualifying in 1967.[2]
He gave talks to the Foreign Correspondents' Club, New Delhi, India, and gave the 'Millennium Oration' of the Sri Lanka Medical Association of North America.[3]
He died on 4 April 2020, at Kingston Hospital, London, after contracting COVID-19 while working there.[2][4] He had been admitted to the hospital's intensive care unit on 31 March[1] and was aged 75.[5]
He was a bibliophile, with a collection of rare books on Sri Lanka and on medical history.[3][6]
Works
As Anton Sebastian he wrote a number of reference works:
- A Dictionary of the History of Medicine. CRC Press. 1999. ISBN 978-1850700210.[6][7][8][9]
- Dates in Medicine. CRC Press. 2000. ISBN 978-1850700951.[9]
- A Dictionary of the History of Science. CRC Press. 2001. ISBN 978-1850704188.[10]
- A Complete Illustrated History of Sri Lanka (2nd ed.). Sri Lanka: Vijitha Yapa Publications. 2014. ISBN 978-9556651492.[3]
His Dictionary of the History of Medicine won a British Medical Association Medical Book Award.[3]