John Ferens Tuner Obituary in Bath at Prior to Now Trust

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John Ferens Tuner

30/04/1930 - 25/09/2002

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Obituary For John Ferens Tuner

John ("Jack") Ferens Turner

Former general practitioner Bath (b 1930; q St Thomas’s Hospital, London, 1962), d from multiple system atrophy on 25 September 2002.

Jack came to medicine late.

He had won a scholarship to read classics at Cambridge but decided against doing so.

After national service in the Royal Marines he worked as a land agent for the National Trust, and helped out in the family clothing business before embarking on a career in medicine.

He loved being a general practitioner and was a real "family doctor."

He also loved the "geriatric mountaineering" holidays that he used to take with other former members of the Territorial Army SAS regiment (21st Artists’ Rifles) in which they had all been very involved in the 1950s.

He was a keen walker, photographer, gardener, and naturalist and was a fount of knowledge on all subjects.

He was diagnosed as having multiple system atrophy before he retired in 1994.

He leaves a wife, Anne (also a doctor), and three children. [Anne Turner]