J. C. P. Williams

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John Cyprian Phipps Williams (born 16 November 1922) is a New Zealand cardiologist known for discovering what is now called Williams syndrome in 1961.[1]

Education and early career

Born in

Otago Medical School in Dunedin and graduated in 1953.[1]

From 1954 to 1955 he worked as

registrar that in 1961 he published his paper on the syndrome that was to bear his name.[1] He had noted a grouping of young patients who were short in stature, had elfin facial features, had cardiac problems, were very friendly and had cognitive deficits.[4] He was appointed a consultant in cardiology at Green Lane Hospital in 1963.[1]

Williams had a reputation for being erratic and eccentric,

University College, London from October 1966 to October 1968.[1]

Later life and disappearance

Williams was a man of many interests, including music and literature. In 1967 and while in London, he met the New Zealand poet Janet Frame, who was a friend of a friend. Shortly afterwards Frame became ill with viral meningitis, and after a hospitalisation, she accepted an invitation to stay with Williams as she recovered.[5] They developed some intimacy and she later wrote that she "enjoyed his company immensely, and admired him greatly...[He] gets top marks from me for ‘livability-with.’”[5] On a subsequent visit to the United Kingdom in 1969, Frame stayed with Williams again, using his flat as a base in London. During her visit, Williams proposed marriage to Frame, asking, "Why don't we formalize our relationship?" Frame fled, not expecting or wanting marriage.[6] When she returned to London about a week later, Williams had disappeared, and little is known of his later movements.[6]

Friends and colleagues met Williams in Europe, with the last meetings occurring in the mid 1970s in

Latter Day Saints Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.[1] Williams renewed his passport in Geneva in September 1979.[6] At the behest of his sister, Interpol tried and failed to find him and in 1988 Williams was declared "a missing person presumed to be dead from 1978" by the High Court of New Zealand.[1] However, author Michael King reports that Williams contacted him indirectly in January 2000, asking that he not be "discussed" in King's biography of Janet Frame.[1][7]

See also

  • List of people who disappeared

References

  1. ^
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  2. ^ "Graduates, 1945". The Spike or Victoria University College Review 1945: 68. 1945. Retrieved 23 January 2013.
  3. ^ "Graduates, 1947". The Spike or Victoria University College Review 1947: 36. 1947. Retrieved 23 January 2013.
  4. ^ The Gregarious Brain, New York Times, July 8, 2007
  5. ^
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  6. ^
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  7. ISBN 978-1-58243-185-7
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