Peter Gatenby (doctor)

Peter Barry Brontë Gatenby (1923 – 24 August 2015 in Sandycove, County Dublin[1]) was an Irish medical doctor, Medical Director for the United Nations and Professor of Medicine at Trinity College, Dublin. He was Ireland’s first full-time professor of clinical medicine.[2][3]

Family

Gatenby was the son of the zoologist James Brontë Gatenby and was related to the Brontë family. He had a wife, Yvette, two children, Robin and Odette, and six grandchildren.[1]

Career

In 2002, the Peter Gatenby Award was founded at Trinity College, Dublin.

Works
  • The school of physic: Trinity College Dublin : a retrospective view, 1994
  • History of the Meath Hospital, 1996

References
  1. "GATENBY, Peter Barry : Death notice". Irish Times Family Notices.
  2. June Shannon (16 September 2010). "Laying the clinical cornerstone". The Medical Independent. Retrieved 9 April 2012.
  3. Gantly, Dara (22 August 2012). "Pin-pointing a pioneer in modern radiotherapy". imt.ie.

Donal G Weir, The Feds, An Account of the Federated Dublin Voluntary Hospitals 1961-2005

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