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Name
  
Henry Yellowlees

Role
  
Medical Doctor

Died
  
March 22, 2006


Sir Henry Yellowlees KCB, (19 April 1919 – 22 March 2006), was Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of the United Kingdom from 1973 to 1984.

He was educated at Stowe School and University College, Oxford. After a sequence of appointments to Regional Hospital Boards he was seconded to the Ministry of Health in 1963, rising to become George Godber's deputy in 1967 and Chief Medical Officer in 1973.

He died on 22 March 2006, survived by his second wife, Mary, and three children he had with his first wife, Sally.

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