Dr P.R. McElwain - Brookside - Stretton-on-Dunsmore, Warwickshire - Dedicated Benches on Waymarking.com

A dedicated bench around a tree on a green on Brookside, Stretton-on-Dunsmore, dedicated to Dr P.R. McElwain.

The plaque on the bench reads -
THIS SEAT WAS DONATED
BY PATIENTS AND FRIENDS
OF THE LATE
DR. P.R. McELWAIN
"DR MAC"
PHYSICIAN AND FRIEND
1950 TO 1976

"PR McELWAIN
MB, BCH, BAO

Dr P R McElwain, who was in general practice at Stretton-on-Duasmore, near Rugby, for 25 years, died on 4 September. He was 60.

Peter Robert McElwain was born at Galway in Ireland in 1916. He came of farming stock but went in for medicine and entered University College, Galway. After graduating in 1943 he went to England, first as a house surgeon at the Mount Gould Orthopecdic Hospital at Plymouth and then serving in the RAF. After demobilisation he went to Leicester, first as house surgeon in the obstetrics and gynaecology department at the Royal Infirmary, and then as resident medical officer at Leicester Maternity Hospital. On completion of these appointments he entered general practice as an assistant at Coventry, and eventually in 1951 moved to Stretton-on-Dunsmore, where he ran a singlehanded practice in the country between Coventry and Rugby. He was admirably suited to this type of practice, where he fitted in with his local community in the true fashion of the village GP. To his patients he was a real guide, philosopher, and friend, and they in turn were clearly extremely fond of him.

He kept from his colleagues the true seriousness of his own condition, which led to a major operation some two years ago. He was in his usual jubilant spirits throughout the early part of the summer, but then it became obvious that the condition for which he had undergone surgery had advanced. He is survived by his wife and five children."

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