Dr Tim Thornton
(with a slightly wrinkled appearance!)
Tim was born three years premature hence his youthful but slightly wrinkled appearance. He went to a good school where he was taught to keep his bowels open and his mouth shut. Occasionally he got these confused. Being of Yorkshire extraction (forceps delivery!), he developed an early love of music. He took up the guitar at ten (and put it down again at a quarter past!). By the time he went to Guy’s Hospital he had played pop, rock, folk and blues to several people who wish to remain nameless. He had always wanted to train as a doctor in London (because the bus from Yorkshire was too slow!). That is where in sixty nine he met up with several other aspiring doctors and musicians (the class of 69 was legendary!). He ran the folk club at Guy’s and played alongside some of the musical grates. He used a sewing machine to embroider the song words on his shirt cuffs and was always known as the original “singer”- songwriter. After forty years in medicine, he has just retired, and now plays guitar bass and jazz saxophone- but not simultaneously. It is very good of Hugh and Wynn-bones to act as roadies for me on this trip and to keep the baying crowds away.
