Jeremiah (Jerry) Noah Morris CBE, 1910-2009 'Draft 7'

摘要

The essence of Jerry's biography can be gleaned from a 'Cochrane-lite' review of obituaries that have appeared since his death on 28 October 2009. The father of post-war British social medicine, he was born at 3 Belgrave Street, Liverpool on 6 May 1910. According to the Financial Times, his father Nathan was a penniless Jewish educator who fled the pogroms of Czarist Russia and took the name Morris from the captain of the ship that brought him to England. The family did not stay long in Liverpool, but moved to Glasgow where they settled in a poor neighbourhood amidst the slums. This early experience had a profound effect on Jerry and his brother Max (who became President of the British National Union of Teachers). He never lost his Glaswegian accent.