Farewell Hugh de Wardener, founder of Kidney Research UK, setter of its path
he was depicted as 'Dr Ginger de Hugenot' in John Coast's Railroad of Death
After performing autopsies on fellow POWs in Burma, he buried their brains and his notes, by dead of night
he created his own antiserum for Diphtheria, and treated Wernicke's encephalopathy with Marmite...
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/oct/29/hugh-de-wardener
The Guardian has made this correction...
"The physician Hugh de Wardener's parents did indeed meet in Paris, as his obituary said (30 October, page 40), but it was wrong to say that his father was serving in the US army there at the time, and that his mother was of French descent."
P.S. Farewell too, to the actor Nigel Davenport. Alas his Obit is little more than a lengthy list of plays from long ago...
http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2013/oct/29/nigel-davenport
This effort is far better...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/film-obituaries/10412939/Nigel-Davenport.html
...and this correction...
"It was Nigel Davenport's father who was awarded the Military Cross in the first world war, not his grandfather as we had it in an obituary of the actor "