Peter Gatenby (doctor)

Peter Barry Brontë Gatenby (1923 – 24 August 2015 in Sandycove, County Dublin^[1]) was an Irish medical doctor, Medical Director for the United Nations and Professor of Medicine at Trinity College Dublin. He was Ireland’s first full-time professor of clinical medicine.^[2][3]

Family

Gatenby was the son of the zoologist James Brontë Gatenby and was related to the Brontë family. He had a wife, Yvette, two children, Robin and Odette, and six grandchildren.^[1]

Career

Gattenby earned a bachelors in medicine degree in Trinity College in 1946.^[4] Following graduation he worked in a number of hospitals in Ireland and the UK.^[5] From 1953 to 1974, he worked as a consultant physician at Dr Steevens' Hospital. In 1960, he became the first full time professor of clinical medicine in Trinity College Dublin, becoming a fellow in 1965.^[6] In 1974, he also became Medical Director for the United Nations. From 1975 to 1978, he was Regius Professor of Physic, and was made an honorary fellow when he resigned in 1978. He continued at the United Nations until his retirement in 1987.

In 2002, the Peter Gatenby Award was founded at Trinity College Dublin.^[7]

Works

• The school of physic: Trinity College Dublin : a retrospective view, 1994
• History of the Meath Hospital, 1996

References

1. "GATENBY, Peter Barry : Death notice". Irish Times Family Notices.
2. June Shannon (16 September 2010). "Laying the clinical cornerstone". The Medical Independent. Retrieved 9 April 2012.
3. Gantly, Dara (22 August 2012). "Pin-pointing a pioneer in modern radiotherapy". imt.ie.
4. K.C., Bailey, ed. (1951). Trinity College Record Volume 1951. Dublin: Dublin University Press Ltd.
5. "Trinity Community Mourns the Death of Peter Gatenby, Hon FTCD". www.tcd.ie. Trinity College Dublin. 26 August 2015. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
6. Webb, D.A. (1992). J.R., Barlett (ed.). Trinity College Dublin Record Volume 1991. Dublin: Trinity College Dublin Press. ISBN 1-871408-07-5.
7. Dublin University Calendar for the year 2019-2020. 2019.

Donal G Weir, The Feds, An Account of the Federated Dublin Voluntary Hospitals 1961-2005