David Hamilton obituary

My friend and colleague David Hamilton, who has died aged 86, decided that he wanted to become a surgeon because it would allow him to use the manual skills he had learned from his father, a civil engineer and keen handyman, ion the pursuit of medicine.He was born in Stockton-on-Tees, Co Durham, the son of Jack Hamilton, whose projects included the Forth Road bridge, and his wife, Helen (nee Kirk), a nurse and accomplished pianist and violinist. David was brought up as a Quaker, encouraged by Ja