Roy Weller

After my House jobs at Guys, I embarked on a career in Neuropathology, first at Guys, then in New York. After another brief spell at Guys and the Institute of Psychiatry, I was appointed to a post in the new Southampton University School of Medicine. The job was a fascinating mixture of Clinical Neuropathology, research, teaching and management. It was so fascinating that I remained in Southampton until I retired, as did David Barker and John Carruth. I managed to fulfil my quota of conferences in exotic places each year, thus justifying the collective noun of an “absence” of Professors. My research passed through a number of phases but for the last decade I have concentrated upon Alzheimer’s disease as an insurance policy. I am still dovetailing research with retirement activities and discovering the beauties of my home town of Winchester with its surrounding countryside. Holidays are spent mainly in West Wales with my wife, Francine, our daughter and two of our four grandchildren. My Welsh is progressing; I can almost say Cardiff in Welsh but not to the satisfaction of my son-in-law. The accompanying photograph was taken this summer at the top of the Campanile in Florence with the Duomo in the background. I submitted it just to prove that I can still climb the 80 metres and 400 steps.