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Cabinet of Nelson’s surgeon up for sale

Danni reins in RNLI cash AN athletic Calshot RNLI press officer proved she was more of a Dasher than a Prancer when she ran four times the distance originally set in a festive fundraiser. Having committed to adding an extra kilometre to her 5km RNLI Reindeer Run for every £10 above her £200 sponsorship target, Danni Strawford-Jones completed a total of 20km during a re- cent weekend in Swanage. Donations continued to pour in, with the total stand- ing at £410 on Monday. Man damaged truck windows A MAN who did nearly £570 of criminal damage to truck windows and was caught with drugs was handed an 18-week curfew. Sean McWhinnie (40), of Jackie Wigg Gardens, Tot- ton, admitted targeting the windows of an Iveco truck on 17th March and possessing cannabis. The offences put him in breach of a condi- tional discharge he had been given for another criminal damage matter. Southampton magistrates ordered he compensate the truck company in full. His curfew is from 8pm-8am until 20th April 2021. Rotarians team up for Kenya FORDINGBRIDGE Rotary Club has teamed up with fellow Rotarians in Kenya to support projects to alleviate poverty. Local members have made a partnership to help the Mugumoini Rotary Club in an area which they said has one of the African conti- nent’s largest slums contain- ing more than 500,000 people living below the poverty line. Planned schemes include building a library and a self-help market, as well as projects to help combat Aids and Covid-19.

Karaoke may be out of tune with homes plan The homes would be built on the car park of the Smugglers Run

Top-drawer item may also have been on board HMS Victory

Mr Wallrock added: “Before he died, Nelson was brought the news that the battle was won and he was able to hear the cheers from the crew whenever an enemy ship sur- rendered. “Nelson asked Hardy not to throw him overboard after he died, as was the practise, and it was Beatty who arranged for Nelson’s body to be placed in a barrel of brandy. “On his return to England, Beatty performed the autopsy on board Victory and subse- quently bequeathed the mus- ket ball which killed the admi- ral to Queen Victoria. “During the battle Beatty carried out a number of ampu- tations, mainly of legs that had been shattered. His skills and those of his assistants saved many lives.” Beatty went on to become physician of the Channel Fleet and was active in promoting the new vaccine against small- pox. He was appointed Phy- sician at Greenwich Hospital and also Physician Extraor- dinary in Scotland to King George IV. He served on the committee which organised the building of Nelson’s column and remained an important member of Lon-

BY JON WALLER

A MEDICINE cabinet which belonged to the surgeon who attended Lord Nelson as he died at the Battle of Trafalgar has been offered for sale by a Lymington antique dealer. Dated to 1803, two years be- fore Nelson was fatally shot on board his flagship HMS Victory, the 10in-high wooden apothecary case belonged to Sir William Beatty. It is being marketed with a starting price of £16,500 by Charles Wallrock, of Wick An- tiques, who speculated it may have been on board Victory at Trafalgar. “This is a wonderful survivor from the Napoleonic wars,” he said. “It is a fascinating glimpse into the past, not only of naval history but medical his- tory.” The case is portable with a handle on top and it carries his details: “William Beat- ty, warranted surgeon. RN. 1803.” It would have contained a variety of tinctures from lauda- num to cures for venereal dis- ease. It opens to reveal drawers and shelves and has two origi- nal glass jars. Beatty, an Irish surgeon, had been appointed to Victory in December 1804 having previ- ously served on a number of ships. After Nelson’s death Beat- ty wrote a detailed account insisting the admiral’s final words were: “Thank God I have done my duty” – before asking his friend, Royal Navy officer Sir Thomas Hardy, to kiss him.

RESIDENTS of a new develop- ment proposed for the car park of the Smugglers Run pub in Christchurch could suffer from noisy karaoke sessions, council- lors have been told. Amirez Ltd applied for per- mission to build a terrace of four houses and three one- and two-bedroom flats in what is currently the car park of the 18th century hostelry, which until last year was known as Ye Olde Starre Inn. There were over 20 letters of support for the plan, with some residents saying it would be a “massive improvement” to the area and “transform” this part of Purewell. One said that it would also offer “good quality housing for local people”. There were five objections. But at a meeting of BCP Council’s planning committee, a report by an environmental officer reported concerns that people living in the new homes would be affected by noise from

the nearby pub. It said: “The noise might con- sist of music from the pub, open mic night, karaoke, TV broad- casts and people noise from the external seating.” Councillors were also told that the development would be in a flood risk area and that the defences proposed were not ad- equate. Recommending refusal, an environmental officer wrote: “In the event of a failure of risk management infrastructure, or to install or operate the pro- posed interventions, then the development could be com- pletely inundated with flood waters up to circa 1.7 metres deep over its lifetime.” The town council has ob- jected to the plan saying it be- lieves it will create an “oppres- sive built form” at the site and would be too large for it. The planning committee de- cided to defer consideration of the application until a later date.

don’s business and sci- entific community until his death in 1842 aged 68. Mr Wallrock added: “His medicine chest will appeal to all collec- tors of Napoleonic-era artefacts, Nelsonia and those with an interest in the history of medicine. There might also be in- stitutions which would like to have it.”

Mare killed as four Forest animals in road collisions

THERE was one fatality among four animal accidents reported by the verderers on New Forest roads last week. A brown mare was killed on Sunday at about 5.50pm at Hill- top on the B3054. Agister An- drew Napthine attended. Earlier last week, a black heif- er was uninjured in a collision on the Tuesday at about 5.20pm in Summer Lane at Moonhills,

Beaulieu. Agister Mike Lovell attended. Mr Lovell was called out the next day to a calf injured at about 5.15pm on the road between Ipers Bridge and Hill- top. He also attended a report on Saturday of a colision with a sheep on the B3078 at Wittens- ford, near Bramsahw, but noth- ing was found.

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Mr Wallrock with the cabinet. Inset, inspecting one of the bottles which have survived intact

Obituary

Dr Derek Browne Former Brockenhurst GP and exercise enthusiast

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A POPULAR and well-re- spected Brockenhurst GP who served for almost 30 years at the same practice has died aged 78. Dr Derek Browne served on the committees of many lo- cal organisations, including as president of the Friends of Brockenhurst, a trustee of Age Concern and Brendon Care, and chair for the rural group of the College of General Practi- tioners. The son of missionary par- ents, Derek was born on 24th September 1942 at Yakusu in the former Belgian Congo at the height of the Second World War. There were no facilities for educating children of mission- aries, so at the age of three he returned to the UK to attend boarding school. Although his school days were not the happiest, and ini- tially he was bottom of the class in all subjects having struggled with dyslexia, with the encour- agement and guidance of one teacher, Mr Campion, he over- came this to excel in all sub- jects. His father Dr Stanley Browne was a world authority on lepro- sy and it was while watching his parents working in Africa that Derek realised his life’s work would also be in medicine. He changed his career path from engineering and was accepted into medical school. He qualified in 1967 at the age of 25 and three years lat- er he married Esther, a nurse. They spent their honeymoon hitchhiking around Kenya and, after a short spell working in England, they went by boat to Nigeria with their four-month- old son, Martin. Derek worked there as a se- nior registrar in tropical med- icine at a teaching hospital in Kaduna for two years and it was during this time that daughter Janine was born. In Kaduna, Derek became in- terested in community health. He had seen the stigma of lep- rosy patients and also the need to use education and limited medical resources to help heal and treat patients holistically. In 1975 the family returned to England and Derek joined Brockenhurst Surgery as a GP. It was his experience of rural needs in Africa that began what became a life-long interest in healthy living and he intro- duced the idea of exercise on prescription in 1983.

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His concept of “exercise pre- vents body rust” was also used to create partnerships between primary care, leisure centres and the community. He ran the London Marathon in 1983 and helped to raise over £34,000 to purchase the free- hold of Brockenhurst Village Hall from Hampshire County Council. He used his skills as a local primary school governor to encourage the education de- partment to spend £30,000 to purchase the adjacent playing field for the primary school. These ideas of community involvement helped create the world’s first Healthy Village Project, as identified by the World Health Organisation, in which local resources could be harnessed to improve the health and social needs of the community. The Healthy Vil- lage Project is now used as a model around the world. Derek was the first GP to be appointed in health promotion to the Southampton Health District in 1976. This included lecturing to schools, voluntary organisations and giving talks on health for the local radio sta- tion. Dr Browne was a respected GP

He retired in 2002 after 27 years as a GP but continued to lecture nationally and inter- nationally on health-related activities, the older person in retirement and helping sup- port those with inequalities in health and social issues. He also continued to support the International Leprosy Asso- ciation and Leprosy Mission to help reduce the associated stig- ma by helping to reintegrate cured patients into the commu- nity using the Healthy Village concept. In 2012, Derek was nomi- nated to carry the Olympic Torch through Ludgershall in Wiltshire, in recognition of his achievements in the village of Brockenhurst. A keen sportsman, Der- ek completed 15 marathons and many half-marathons. He also travelled extensively. In October 2020 he and Esther, who played a pivotal role in supporting and encourag- ing Derek’s work, celebrated their golden wedding anniver- sary. He is survived by Esther, Mar- tin, Janine and his five grand- children.

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