| Anton Sebastianpillai | |
|---|---|
| Born | c. 1944  Sri Lanka |
| Died | Kingston Hospital |
| Other names | Anton Sebastian |
| Alma mater | |
| Occupation | Consultant, geriatrician, author, lexicographer, historian, bibliophile |
| Employer | |
Anton Sebastianpillai FRCP (23 January 1945 – 4 April 2020), was a British historian, author (writing as Anton Sebastian) and consultant geriatrician, of Sri Lankan Tamil origin.
Biography
He had his primary and secondary education at St Sylvester's College, Kandy and trained at Peradeniya Medical School, in Sri Lanka, qualifying in 1967.
He gave talks to the Foreign Correspondents' Club, New Delhi, India, and gave the 'Millennium Oration' of the Sri Lanka Medical Association of North America.
He died on 4 April 2020, at Kingston Hospital, London, after contracting COVID-19 while working there. He had been admitted to the hospital's intensive care unit on 31 March and was aged 75.
He was a bibliophile, with a collection of rare books on Sri Lanka and on medical history.
Works
As Anton Sebastian he wrote a number of reference works:
- A Dictionary of the History of Medicine. CRC Press. 1999. ISBN 978-1850700210.
- Dates in Medicine. CRC Press. 2000. ISBN 978-1850700951.
- A Dictionary of the History of Science. CRC Press. 2001. ISBN 978-1850704188.
- A Complete Illustrated History of Sri Lanka (2nd ed.). Sri Lanka: Vijitha Yapa Publications. 2014. ISBN 978-9556651492.
His Dictionary of the History of Medicine won a British Medical Association Medical Book Award.
References
- ^ "Tributes for British Tamil Doctor On the Frontline Who Dies from Coronavirus". Tamil Guardian. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
- ^ "Doctor in his 70s dies at London hospital". BBC News. 7 April 2020. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
- ^ "Bringing Out the Very Essence of This Country". The Sunday Times. 26 February 2012. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
- Jenkinson, Orlando. "Tributes for Kingston Doctor Lost to Coronavirus". Sutton & Croydon Guardian. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
- "A Sri Lankan Born Doctor Succumbed To COVID-19 In London". Asian Tribune. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
- ^ Erlen, Jonathon (1 April 2001). "A Dictionary of the History of Medicine (review)". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. 56 (2): 182–183. doi:10.1093/jhmas/56.2.182. ISSN 1468-4373.
- Murray, Jock (October 1999). "Book Reviews: A Dictionary of the History of Medicine". 16 (2): 374–376. doi:10.3138/cbmh.16.2.374.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - Geddes, Jennian F (November 1999). "A Dictionary of the History of Medicine (reviewed)". Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 92 (11): 604–605. doi:10.1177/014107689909201124. PMC 1297448.
- ^ Bowers Jr, George N (1 March 2001). "A Dictionary of the History of Medicine". Clinical Chemistry. 47 (3): 611–612. doi:10.1093/clinchem/47.3.611b.
- Crellin, J.K (October 2002). "A Dictionary of the History of Science". Canadian Bulletin of Medical History. 19 (2): 513–514. doi:10.3138/cbmh.19.2.513.
- 1940s births
- 2020 deaths
- 20th-century British non-fiction writers
- 20th-century Sri Lankan historians
- Alumni of the University of Ceylon (Peradeniya)
- British bibliophiles
- 20th-century British medical doctors
- 21st-century British medical doctors
- Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians
- Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in England
- British geriatricians
- Sri Lankan emigrants to the United Kingdom
- Sri Lankan non-fiction writers
- Sri Lankan Tamil people
- Sri Lankan medical doctors
- Sri Lankan Tamil writers
- Sri Lankan historians
- 20th-century British historians
- 21st-century British historians