A FORMER Cherwell School pupil who dedicated his life to nursing has died from lung cancer aged 49.

Simon Pullin spent three decades caring for others.

He was born in Wales in 1962 and moved to Oxford six years later where he attended now-closed Bishop Kirk Primary School in Summertown.

He began a lifelong career in nursing in 1981 when he attended the Barnet School of Nursing in London.

After two years working for the M.I. Group, a financial company, he returned to nursing at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in the city.

At the hospital he was instrumental in setting up a stroke unit through fundraising, for which he was honoured by hospital managers.

In 2007 he moved to Edinburgh to work as a senior nurse in a compassionate care programme run by NHS Lothian and Edinburgh Napier University.

He gained a Master of Science while working in the city.

His brother Phil said: “Nursing was his life, he put his heart and soul into it.”

Mr Pullin passed away on July 11 at a hospice in Edinburgh.

A memorial service will be held at St Mary the Virgin in Kidlington at noon on August 17. All who knew him are welcome.

Mr Pullin did not marry and had no children.

Donations are invited to Maggies Cancer Centre, based at the Churchill Hospital, Oxford, on 0300 123 1801 or through the website maggiescentres.org.