Dr 0 B Lean, who was in general practice in Rushden, Northamptonshire, died on 8 December aged 88.

Oscar Bevan Lean was at school in Sidcot, Somerset, where his father was headmaster, and at Bootham, York. He then went for the last two years of the war to the western front to do ambulance and hospital work with the Section Sanitaire Anglaise. Subsequently he entered University College Hospital Medical School, which he represented in both hockey and tennis, and qualified in 1924. He entered practice in Rushden in 1926 and retired 41 years later.

Dr Lean was a representative at the annual representative meetings of the BMA for many years and chairman of the Kettering division in 1968-9. For many years he was secretary of the Northampton Medical Charity. He retained his interest in sport by taking up badminton and, later, golf. He met his wife, Mary, when she was a nurse at University College Hospital. She survives him with their three daughters.- AJBE.

Notes: Oscar Bevan Lean (Born Yorkshire, September Quarter 1898 and died 8th December 1986) = Mary Palmer (1899-1994) and married March 1927 Quarter in Wandsworth. Three daughters , Barbara Anna Bevan Lean (1928-1995) and married 1951 and two other daughters - one called Jane Bevan Lean who was listed as being bon in March (quarter) 1931