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British Journal of Anaesthesia 2008 100(5):597-598; doi:10.1093/bja/aen092
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© The Board of Management and Trustees of the British Journal of Anaesthesia 2008. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Thomas Cecil Gray CBE (1913–2008) An outstanding Editor of the British Journal of Anaesthesia (1948–1964)

J. E. Riding and J. M. Hunter*

University of Liverpool, Division of Clinical Science (Anaesthesia), Duncan Building, Daulby Street, Liverpool L69 3GA, UK

* Corresponding author. E-mail: bja@liverpool.ac.uk

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Thomas Cecil Gray was born in Liverpool in 1913, and was educated at Ampleforth College and Liverpool University where he graduated in medicine in 1937. Becoming interested in anaesthetics when a general practitioner in Liverpool, he was trained by R.J. Minnitt who was, and continued to be for many years, a member of the British Journal of Anaesthesia (BJA) Board. After war service in North Africa, where he was attached to a neurosurgical unit, Gray was invalided out in 1944. He later resumed a demanding civilian anaesthetic and general practice. It was at this time that he began investigating the ways in which tubocurarine might be used as an adjunct to general anaesthesia, as others were following the report by Griffith and Johnson in Anesthesiology . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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