Donald Teare
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Robert Donald Teare, FRCP, FRCPath (1 July 1911 – 17 January 1979) was a senior British pathologist.
Early life
Teare was born 1 July 1911, and educated at King William's College on the Isle of Man, and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He trained at St George's Hospital, London, from where he qualified in 1936.
Career
Teare began his career as a lecturer in forensic medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College. In 1963 he became reader and eventually professor of forensic medicine at Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, a post he held until retirement in 1975. Teare was also a lecturer at the Metropolitan Police College, Hendon, and served as President of the Medical Defence Union. He was a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and of the Royal College of Pathologists, and served as President of the British Association of Forensic Medicine.
Teare published the first modern description of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in 1958. Today this disease is considered the leading cause of sudden cardiac death in young athletes.[1][2]
In 1973, Teare carried out the autopsy on Bruce Lee,[3] as well as Jimi Hendrix's in 1970.[4] Teare supervised the autopsy of Brian Epstein in 1967.
Together with Keith Simpson and Francis Camps, Teare was one of the "Three Musketeers", who dealt with almost all the suspicious deaths in the London area.[5] He was called to give evidence in many high-profile criminal investigations, such as the murder of Beryl Evans and her baby Geraldine in the Timothy Evans case. Teare's accident investigations included the Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash, which killed 112 people in 1952.[6]
Teare retired in 1975 and died 17 January 1979 on the Isle of Man, at the age of 67.
References
- ^ Teare D (1958). "Asymmetrical hypertrophy of the heart in young adults". British Heart Journal. 20: 1–8.
- ^ McKenna WJ, Sen-Chowdhry S (2008). "From Teare to the Present Day: A Fifty Year Odyssey in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, a Paradigm for the Logic of the Discovery Process". Revista Española de Cardiología. 61 (12): 1239–1244. doi:10.1016/S1885-5857(09)60050-5.
- ^ "British professor testifies: Bruce's death not caused by marijuana". New Straits Times. 20 September 1973.
- ^ Brown, Tony (1997). Jimi Hendrix: The Final Days. Omnibus Press. pp. 158–159. ISBN 978-0-7119-5238-6.
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- ^ Report on the Double Collision which occurred on 8th October, 1952, at Harrow and Wealdstone Station in the London Midland Region British Railways (PDF). Ministry of Transport. 12 June 1953.
Sources
- Obituary, The Times, 19 November 1979
- Mitchel P. Roth, "Historical dictionary of law enforcement", Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001, ISBN 0-313-30560-9, p. 344
- Obituary, British Medical Journal, 3 February 1979, p. 354