Geoffrey Gillam

Geoffrey Gerard Gillam FRCP (28 January 1905 – 15 February 1970) was a British medical doctor and consultant cardiologist who became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.

During the Second World War he was commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps and served in Normandy and British India, rising to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.

[1] Gillam's career as a physician began at Bungay, Suffolk, where he established himself as a general practitioner and remained for almost ten years, gaining a reputation for devotion to his patients and an unhurried approach.

[3] A. M. Nussey, a physician colleague at Solihull Hospital in the 1960s,[4] recalled that "Gillam was tall and distinguished in appearance, and his penetrating intellect was clearly the basis of an almost uncanny diagnostic acumen.

Some may have been deceived by the apparently puzzled simplicity with which he formulated his questions at medical gatherings, but, in effect, these usually served to focus attention on vital points and carried the discussion to the right conclusions..."[3]On 21 September 1929, at All Souls, Langham Place, Marylebone, Gillam was married to Mary Frances Oldaker Davies, daughter of Captain William Davies, by the Rev.