Dr. Richard Michael Joseph Harper, MA, DM

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Doctor, probably the late doctor R M J Harper, previously physician at the North Devon Infimary,refereed to in BMJ 1976 1, history of SW branch of BMA
• Baptism: 7 Nov 1903, Barnstaple, Devon; St Mary Magdalen
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Barnstaple, Devon
• Residence: 1931, Barnstaple, Devon

Notes:

Educated at Marlborough College, 1916-21, Exeter College, Oxford, 1921-25, St. Thomas's Hospital, London, 1925-30.

M.R.C.S. Eng. and L.R.C.P. London 1928. Physician N. Devon Infirmary 1932-72. Published 1962 Evolution of Illness and in 1975 Evolutionary Origins of Disease. Portrait by Vera Justice, presented by Colleagues at the N. Devon Infirmary on his retirement 1972. Last in possession of his widow.

2 sons and 1 daughter: John Richard Harper, F.R.C.P., born 1 May 1932, Consultant Children's Physician, Northampton Hospital (1979); Peter Stanley Harper, D.M., Oxon., F.R.C.P., London Reader and Consultant in Medical Genetics at Welsh National School of Medicine, Cardiff (born 25 April 1938) and Joy Cadbury (nee Harper) born 15 July 1933.

Richard married Margery Elizabeth Elkington on 27 Jun 1931 in Newport, Shropshire. Margery (daughter of Ernest Alfred Elkington and Annie Isabella Baddeley) was born on 25 Oct 1902 in Newport, Shropshire; died in Nov 2002 in Barnstaple, Devon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Cadbury. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]