Martin Bax obituary

Paediatrician specialising in child development and novelist who founded the literary periodical Ambit As the title of his 2018 memoir, Two Lives to Lead, hinted at, Martin Bax’s working life was split between two equally demanding duties – that of a consultant developmental paediatrician who published extensively on child disability, and founder of the long-running literary and arts magazine Ambit. Bax, who has died aged 90, also wrote fiction, while continuing his work within the N