Hugh Jolly

A colleague, Bernard Mosely Laurance, wrote that Jolly "was probably better known to the general public than any other living doctor.

"[1] An obituary in the Midwives Chronicle said he was "the paediatrician who brought common sense to baby care and whose books and broadcasts earned him an international reputation.

[8][9] Bogarde's biographer John Coldstream comments that Jolly was "Theatrical in temperament and stage-struck by inclination".

He saw there the work on infantile hydrocephalus of the surgeon Eugene B. Spitz, inventor with John Holter of the cerebral shunt called the Spitz-Holter valve, that was introduced at this time.

[15] Brought in by Doyne Bell, Jolly served as consultant paediatrician at Charing Cross Hospital from 1960 to 1984.

His son wrote that Jolly was: [...] a larger-than-life character with boundless enthusiasm who espoused the rights of parents and the 'whole child'.

[25] Elaine Streeter in Making Music with the Young Child with Special Needs (1993) thanked Jolly, after his death, for support at the Centre.

[26] Andrea Clifford-Poston, who worked as Teacher-in-Charge at the Centre, wrote that: Hugh Jolly helped mothers to feel less bullied by their children by refusing to use the phrase 'feeding on demand', changing it to 'on request'.

[27]Jolly, following pioneer work by Stanford (Sandy) Bourne (1928–2021) and Emanuel (Manny) Lewis, argued for a better psychological approach in medical practice after stillbirths.

[32] On co-sleeping, Jolly's view was quoted: Psychoanalysts may be firm in their advice that parents must never allow their children into their beds, but those who have practiced it know better and have not had any dire consequences to face – just the opposite.

The Nursing Mirror reported that LIFE, the organisation which campaigns for unborn and newly-born babies, has asked the police to question Dr Hugh Jolly, physician-in-charge of Charing Cross Hospital's paediatric department[...][38]On 1 March 1981, on the ITV programme Jaywalking, Jolly had given a standard argument on "letting nature take its course" in cases of severe handicap in newborn babies.

[39] LIFE is a British pro-life organisation, at that point chaired by the historian John Joseph Scarisbrick, and gave evidence to police.

The issue was brought up in the House of Commons in 1982, when Gwyneth Dunwoody linked it in a question to the case of Leonard Arthur.

[56] An archive on historical child-rearing was compiled by Deirdre Le Faye from 1975 for Jolly, a project cut short by his death.

[63][64] Jolly married in 1944, as her second husband, Geraldine Mary Howard MB BS (1917–1990), daughter of the Hon.