Martyn Drake was educated at Sedbergh School in Cumbria, read medicine at Christ Church, Oxford, and completed his clinical studies at the Radcliffe Infirmary. Lifelong self-discipline and a wiry fitness saw him through to his 91st year.
A boxing blue, he captained the clinical school rugby and cricket teams and produced the hospital pantomime in the days when consultants would, secretly, be offended if they were not gently teased or impersonated by the students. After house jobs he spent nine months as a ship’s doctor on a cruise …
