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College of General Practitioners and an award from the International Society of Biometeorology. The VZV Foun- dation in the United States gave him its gold medal in 1999 at the Pump Rooms in Cheltenham, and in 2000 the President of the RCGP presented him with the George Abercrombie award for outstanding contributions to the literature at the Stratton Hotel in Cirencester, and two years later their gold medal, as a founding member of the Royal College of General Practitioners.
His practice in Cirencester was used as a model in 1994 when the RCGP introduced research practices which lat- er became NHS research and development general prac- tices. He would have been fascinated in researching the current pandemic of Covid 19.
He took a full part in Cirencester life and was a long- standing member of the Natural History Society and the United Nations Association also being vice –president of the Poulton cricket club.
He was a kind, generous and compassionate man with a zest for life and an interest in everyone he met. He was also an artist and poet with a love of nature, being an inspiration to those who spent time with him. During an interview when asked what message would he give to today’s physicians caring for patients with post-herpetic Neuralgia, Edgar responded;
‘So long as there is a kindly understanding doctor who will go on keeping in touch with the patient even if it goes on a very long time, this will be enormously valuable therapeutically.’ Such was his love for fellow mankind.
Edgar had a very strong Christian faith. He joined the So- ciety of Friends in 1932 and continued to worship with them until his death in 2003.
He is fondly remembered by many local people in Cirencester to this day.
His widow Julia has kindly contributed much of the in- formation which has enabled me to write this tribute and The Civic Society is delighted to have erected a blue plaque at 86 Dyer Street to mark his contribution to med- ical science.
John Tiffney Cirencester Civic Society
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