Peter Williams (physician)

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Peter Williams
FRCP
Born
Peter Orchard Williams

(1925-09-23)23 September 1925
Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Died25 July 2014(2014-07-25) (aged 88)
Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England
NationalityBritish
EmployerMedical Research Council

Peter Orchard Williams

FRCP (23 September 1925 − 25 July 2014) was a British physician, who served as Director of the Wellcome Trust, and of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine
.

The son of Agnes (née Birkinshaw) and Robert Williams, he was born on 23 September 1925 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, where his father, a botanist, was curator of the Royal Botanic Gardens.[1][2]

He read medicine at the

National Service with the Royal Army Medical Corps for three years, spending some time in Germany.[2] on his return, he was employed from 1955 to 1960 by the Medical Research Council as a medical officer.[3]

Williams joined the Wellcome Trust in 1960, becoming director in 1965, and retiring from there in 1991.[2] During that time, he managed a hundred-fold increase in the Trust's budget.[2]

Williams was awarded honorary degrees by the University of Birmingham (1989), University of Nottingham (1990). University of the West Indies (1991). University of Glasgow (1992), and University of Oxford (1993).[4]

He was made a

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1991 Birthday Honours.[5] He was a founder member of The Hague Club, and of the Association of Medical Research Charities.[1] He was president of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from 1991 to 1993.[4]

Williams died on 25 July 2014, aged 89, in Woodstock, Oxfordshire.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b Gordon, David; Tansey, Tilli (15 August 2014). "Peter Williams obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
  2. ^
    S2CID 43672627
    . Retrieved 12 June 2017.
  3. Wikidata Q29581639
  4. ^
    Munks Roll
    .
  5. ^ "No. 52563". The London Gazette (Supplement). 14 June 1991. pp. 1–28.

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