David Cranston, a surgeon at the John Radcliffe Hospital, has written a short book on John Radcliffe and his Legacy to Oxford, explaining what kind of a doctor he was, and how he managed to amass a fortune to enable him to endow the hospital as well as the Radcliffe Camera.
Mr Cranson is a fellow of Green Templeton College, which now owns the camera, and he has researched the archives to throw light on Radcliffe's life and work as Royal Physician to William and Mary. Oxford University has applied for planning permission to erect a statue of Radcliffe by sculptor Martin Jennings on the observatory site.
Illustrated by Oxford watercolour painter Valerie Petts, the book is available online at www.wordsbydesign.co.uk for £12, with £1 going to UCARE (Urology Cancer Research and Education). The author is interviewed in January’s Limited Edition magazine, free with The Oxford Times.
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