7 November 1925 to 9 May 2022
DSc, MD, PhD, MB ChB, FRCA ( Hon), FGS, FRCS(Hon), FANZCA (Hon), FCAI(Hon)
Dr John Francis Nunn died after an acute episode of respiratory failure. He had spent the last four years of his life in residential care due to progressive vascular dementia.
John read medicine at Birmingham University, during which period he developed passions for climbing and geology. On graduation he went to Svalbard on a geological expedition as medical officer and ‘rock carrier’.
He returned to Birmingham to undertake his house jobs and, having married in 1949, went to Penang in lieu of conventional national service. There he became an anaesthetist, learning the art by hands-on experience and the science by correspondence with seniors back home.