Dr Graham Swift
A Bristolian by birth, as a child I lived in Wiltshire and Dorset before moving to Sussex in time for the outbreak of war and the Battle of Britain. We moved to Southampton for the duration of the Blitz and I was then evacuated to Bournemouth, observing at close quarters the build up to D-Day.
I was educated free at Grammar School and university and qualified as a doctor in 1956, an ambition probably triggered by some months in hospital in childhood and long evenings acting as a partner for my mother’s Red Cross first aid class.
After a short spell in hospital medicine and a brief interlude as an expedition doctor in Lapland, I became a GP, and eventually settled in Woodstock in 1965, retiring to Old Marston in 1995.
Happily married to Gillian, a wise course, for fifty years, four children, six grandchildren. Apolitical, enthusiastic traveller (now we can afford to), a member of the National Trust, the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE), the Oxford Preservation Trust, Royal Horticultural Society, RFS, the Oxford Woodland Group and BBONT (Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxford Wildlife Trust).
I was educated free at Grammar School and university and qualified as a doctor in 1956, an ambition probably triggered by some months in hospital in childhood and long evenings acting as a partner for my mother’s Red Cross first aid class.
After a short spell in hospital medicine and a brief interlude as an expedition doctor in Lapland, I became a GP, and eventually settled in Woodstock in 1965, retiring to Old Marston in 1995.
Happily married to Gillian, a wise course, for fifty years, four children, six grandchildren. Apolitical, enthusiastic traveller (now we can afford to), a member of the National Trust, the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE), the Oxford Preservation Trust, Royal Horticultural Society, RFS, the Oxford Woodland Group and BBONT (Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxford Wildlife Trust).