Honours and Final Days
He received the Order of the British Empire, the Stuart prize from the British Medical Association, the Kuenssberg prize from the Royal College of General Practitioners, and an award from the International Society of Biometeorology. The VZV Foundation in the United States gave him its gold medal in 1999. The then president of the Royal College of General Practitioners presented him with the George Abercrombie award, for outstanding contributions to the literature. He also spend a semester as Visiting Professor in Community Health, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio in 1974. Hope-Simpson's practice was used as a model in 1994 when the RCGP introduced research practices, which later became NHS research and development general practices. His first wife, Eleanor died in 1997 after a long illness, during which he was an exemplary carer. He remarried, when over 90, and leaves his second wife, Julia; a daughter; and four grandchildren.Edgar never stopped thinking and reading, made many observations, he retained his faculties until just before he died, saying how much he loved life, even in his final week.
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