Edward Stout

EDWARD Laverick Stout, a much respected family doctor and anaesthetist in York for more than 30 years, has died aged 83.
By The Newsroom
Published 23rd Apr 2010, 21:54 BST
Updated 23rd Apr 2010, 21:54 BST

Born in Whitehaven, West Cumbria, the son of the director of a timber importing company, he was educated at Worksop College, Notts, and Pembroke College, Cambridge, from where he graduated in natural sciences before qualifying as a doctor at St George's Hospital, London.

He then did two years' National Service with the RAF, serving in Cyprus during the unrest between Greek and Turkish Cypriots in the 1950s, before joining a practice in Colchester.

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In 1959, he moved to York where he settled, becoming a well known and respected member of the community as a general practitioner and an anaesthetist.

He was also a keen musician being a member of the York Musical Society.

Dr Stout, who never married, is survived by his brother Bernard, a lawyer who lives in Cumbria. A funeral service will be held on Tuesday at St Andrew's Church, Bishopthorpe, York, at 1pm.

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