Keith Simpson (pathologist) - Family Life

Family Life

Cedric Keith Simpson was born in 1907 near Brighton Sussex, where his father was a GP. He attended Brighton and Hove Grammar School and at 17 he enrolled at Guy's Hospital Medical School where he became a top student. In 1932 Keith Simpson married Mary Buchanan, with whom he had three children (their only son later became a doctor). They were together until Mary's death from multiple sclerosis in 1955. Dr Simpson married his secretary, Jean Scott-Dunn, in March 1956 and they lived in Marylebone. Dr Janet Thurston became his third wife in 1982.