Helen McClelland, Alan Kerr , 2025-06-23 07:41:00
- Helen McClelland,
- Alan Kerr
Hamish was brought up in South Shields, Tyne and Wear, and was educated at St Bees boarding school in Cumbria. He studied medicine at Newcastle Medical School, qualifying in 1952. After national service in Hong Kong he undertook general medical training in the south west of England and achieved membership of the Royal College of Physicians. His interest in the workings of the mind was becoming more obvious to him, however, and he decided to become a psychiatrist.
Hamish was appointed as …