William Macreadie (Bill) Edgar (G/SH 36-41). His son, George, has submitted the following:
“My father, Dr William Macreadie Edgar, known as Bill, died on 10th May 2020, aged 97.
He graduated from Caius College Cambridge and qualified in medicine at Westminster Hospital in 1946, and went on to do national service in the RAMC in East Africa. He was a keen climber in Wales, Scotland and the Alps, and was the expedition doctor on a 1956 expedition to the Himalayas sponsored by the Daily Mail to look for evidence of the existence of the Yeti (of which he was always sceptical).
He married Freda, a fellow doctor, in 1958. They moved in 1962 to West Yorkshire, where he spent the rest of his professional life as a consultant pathologist and microbiologist based at Bradford Royal Infirmary, but also working and teaching at other hospitals in Bradford and Leeds. A former colleague said of him that ‘He was an inspirational teacher and a pillar of moral rectitude, setting an example we tried hard to follow’. He retired in 1987.
Bill was a passionate birdwatcher and remained a keen mountaineer. He completed the Munros (peaks and tops) as well as the Welsh, English and Irish 3000-footers. His last expedition was up Snowdon's Crib Goch ridge in 2008, at the age of 85. He is greatly missed by Freda, their children Sarah, George and John, and their grandchildren Anna, Iain, Katerina and Alexander.”

 

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