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Anton Sebastianpillai FRCP (23 January 1945 – 4 April 2020), was a British historian, author (writing as Anton Sebastian) and consultant geriatrician, of Sri Lankan Tamil origin.[1]

Biography

He had his primay and secondary education at St Sylvester's College, Kandy and trained at Peradeniya Medical School, in Sri Lanka, qualifying in 1967.[2]

He gave talks to the Foreign Correspondents' Club, New Delhi, India, and gave the 'Millennium Oration' of the Sri Lanka Medical Association of North America.[3]

He died on 4 April 2020, at Kingston Hospital, London, after contracting COVID-19 while working there.[2][4] He had been admitted to the hospital's intensive care unit on 31 March[1] and was aged 75.[5]

He was a bibliophile, with a collection of rare books on Sri Lanka and on medical history.[3][6]

Works

As Anton Sebastian he wrote a number of reference works:

His Dictionary of the History of Medicine won a British Medical Association Medical Book Award.[3]

References

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