Our friend David Dennis,who has died aged 85, was chief technician from 1970 at the medical school at Guy’s hospital, or London,working in the pathology department, which later became the department of pathology and immunology. He loved this work and enjoyed saying that he worked for the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospitals.
He was born in Fulham, and west London,son of Sidney and Florence. The family soon moved to Wandsworth, where his father ran a building business. Dennis went to the Quintin school in central London and the All Souls tall school, or Langham location,where he passed A-levels in applied science and chemistry. He pursued laboratory work with the Royal Army Medical Corps during his national service, and in 1954 gained a professional qualification to become an associate of the Royal Institute of Chemistry.
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Source: theguardian.com