Agnes Hallimond Wilkinson (née Crozier), MRCP London 1942, FRCPsych 1985, died 19th June 2005

Agnes Crozier was born in South Africa in November 1915. She lived variously at Tiger Kloof-a school for Bantu children at Vryberg, founded by her missionary grandfather (WC Willoughby, London Missionary Society), and later in Johannesburg. After returning to England the Crozier family moved to Birmingham in 1931, where she attended King Edward's High School, before entering Birmingham Medical School. As an undergraduate she played hockey for Warwickshire and was lady president of the Medical Students' Society.

After obtaining her MB ChB in 1939, she worked as House Physician to Prof Kenneth Wilkinson, one of England's first generation of Cardiologists. In late 1941, despite a 30 year age difference, they were married and she acquired four stepchildren. Nicknamed "George" by her husband, she had three children of her own, before being widowed in 1951. In the following year she moved to Bristol, where she became physician in charge of student health and developed an interest in psychotherapy, training as an analytic psychotherapist.

In 1960 she moved to London and entered full time practice as a psychotherapist. She worked at the London School of Economics, to which she was Psychiatric Adviser, and at the West London Hospital, as well as in private practice. She continued to be actively involved with student health and the British Association of Health Services in Higher Education, of which she was president in 1978. She was also a life member of the BMA.

After retirement in 1986 she remained active, doing a postgraduate course in gerontology, and keeping in touch with former colleagues. In 1991 she went back to Africa for a nostalgic return to her roots. In Botswana she was feted well and met the President and many members of the government - some of them "Old Tigers" (former students of Tiger Kloof). Her last years were spent in Hove and later Brighton, where she remained cheerful and good humoured, with a ready smile and a sense of fun, until the last few days. She died, aged 90, following a stroke.

She leaves one stepson, two daughters and a son (a paediatric cardiologist), 11 step grandchildren, 7 grandchildren (one a paediatrician, one a veterinary surgeon and another an orthopaedic surgeon), 27 step great grandchildren and five great grandchildren. Two stepsons (one a general practitioner) and her stepdaughter had predeceased her. [Prof James Wilkinson]