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Robert Geoffrey Chaytor (“Geoffrey”) qualified from the medical school, King’s College, Newcastle, when it was still part of Durham University. He served in the Royal Army Medical Corps for three years in Burma, Egypt, Palestine, and Sudan. After training as an ear, nose, and throat (ENT) surgeon he was appointed consultant in 1952 and opened the new Walkergate Hospital in Newcastle. This had been a fever hospital for the area and occupied a large site, on which it was intended that the third main general hospital for Newcastle was to be built. …
