Michael King obituary

My father, Michael King, who has died aged 88, always wanted to be a doctor, following a childhood incident when he accidentally killed a squirrel with his catapult to which he attributed his lifelong commitment to surgery and medicine. He worked for three decades as a surgeon in Malawi.Michael was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, where his father, Leslie, was vicar of Holy Trinity, Jesmond; his mother, Rosina (nee Stanton), had worked in Liberty’s in London before her marriage. During the sec