Dr Richard Chave Nainby-Luxmoore
Personal details
Dr Richard Chave Nainby-Luxmoore MA MBBChir FFARCS
20/02/1926 to 16/09/2008
Place of birth: London
Nationality: British
CRN: 512107
Also known as: Dick
Education and qualifications
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General education |
School and University information, Academic and Extracurricular Ludgrove Preparatory School, Wokingham; Eton College; Cambridge University; St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London |
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Primary medical qualification(s) |
MRCS LRCP, 1954 MBBChir, Cambridge, 1954 |
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Initial Fellowship and type |
FFARCS by Examination |
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Year of Fellowship |
1961 |
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Other qualification(s) |
BA, Cambridge, 1950 (MA, 1956); MBBChir, Cambridge, 1954 |
Professional life and career
Postgraduate career
After house officer posts at Bart’s Dick started anaesthetics there also. From 1957 he spent two years as senior research assistant with Dr McIntosh at the Medical College of Virginia, and then four years as resident anaesthetist at the Nuffield Hospital, Oxford. This was followed by a senior registrar post at St George’s, Hospital, London and appointment as a consultant in Portsmouth in 1965. In 1970 he served a one year sabbatical in Vietnam, an experience which gave him nightmares for the rest of his life. He retired in 1961.
Professional interests and activities
While in Oxford he collaborated on a study of Minnitt’s gas/air apparatus, showing that it could be dangerous under certain circumstances, and hastening the switch to ‘Entonox’. As a consultant he had an interest in paediatric anaesthesia, having a reputation for skilled management of children who ‘never’ cried. A competent, convivial colleague, he served a term (1973-5) as chair of the department and remained a good source of advice to others.
Other biographical information
Near to the end of his school days he fell and fractured his pelvis, this requiring a long stay in hospital and delaying his joining the Scots Guards (in which his father was a major). He served from 1944, and was commissioned in 1945, but in 1946 decided to change direction and study medicine.
Dick was a passionate and accomplished sailor, a member of The Royal Yacht Squadron (the Luxmoore buoy in Bembridge Harbour, Isle of Wight is named after his father, also a keen sailor). He married Ruth Murlock in 1957 and they had three children: Jonathan (a GP), James & Mary. A grandson, Edward, is an Olympic rower. In 1989 Dick married Jillian McLagan, and they lived in Southwick, Hampshire. His other interests were skiing, shooting and mowing his large acreage of grass. He is remembered as a kind and generous friend.
Author and Sources
Author: Robert Julian Palmer
Sources and any other comments: Personal communication with wife, Jilly, and son