Allan George Williams Whitfield (1909–1987) was an English physician. (The obituary erroneously states, "He was created CBE in 1969." Munk's Roll has the correct year.)

Biography After education at Wellingborough School, A. George Whitfield studied medicine at the University of Birmingham, graduating there MB ChB (Birm.) in 1931. After house appointments at Birmingham General Hospital and at Queen's Hospital, Birmingham, he joined a well-established general practice in Sutton Coldfield. He joined the RAMC Territorial Force in 1933. During WWII he served as second in command of a field ambulance in France and was mentioned in dispatches. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1942 and was appointed assistant director of medical services of the First Army. In 1943 a severe chest infection caused him to be invalided out, and he returned to general practice. He qualified MRCP in 1946. In 1947 he was appointed to Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham as medical registrar at the, then new, professorial department of medicine. There he became, in 1948, consultant physician and lecturer in medicine to the University of Birmingham. He graduated MD in 1950 and PhD in 1955. At the University of Birmingham he was, from 1955 to 1974, director of the board of graduate medical studies and also professor of medicine from 1966 to 1974. He was editor-in-chief of the Quarterly Journal of Medicine for 13 years.

He was the author or co-author of approximately 200 publications. During the last decade of his life he wrote, with Sir Cyril Clarke, reports on clinical epidemiology in internal medicine.

In 1937 in Sutton Coldfield he married Barbara Franks. They had a daughter.

Awards and honours 1953 — elected FRCP 1970 — President of the West Midlands Physicians Association 1974 — appointed CBE 1975 — Lumleian Lecturer on Ankylosing spondylitis 1978 — Fellow of the Faculty of Community Medicine 1983 — Croonian Sermonizer 1986 — Harveian Orator on Royal physicians

See also Sir James Clark, 1st Baronet (subject of the biography Beloved Sir James: the life of Sir James Clark, Bart., Physician to Queen Victoria, 1788–1870, 280 pages by George Whitfield)

Selected publications

1963

1972

References