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Dr James Sharp, Consultant Rheumatologist at Withington Hospital, Manchester and the Devonshire Royal Hospital, Buxton, died from cardiac failure on 26 December 1999. Jim, or Jimmy as he was universally known, was born in Bolton, Lancashire on 23 March 1919, the son of a cotton mill manager. His early years were spent in Glossop, Derbyshire, and Boothstown, Lancashire, and he attended the local grammar schools in Glossop and Leigh before graduating BSc in 1940 from the University of Manchester. From 1941–1943 he completed his medical training at Rochester, New York, as a Rockerfeller Medical Student, qualifying MD Rochester, MRCS, LRCP, MB, ChB, Manchester in 1943.
He was commissioned with the RAMC and served with the Somerset Light Infantry in India from 1944–1947.
On returning to Manchester, Jimmy gave serious consideration to a career in haematology and from 1947 to 1951 was Registrar then Senior Registrar in the Department of Haematology at the Manchester Royal Infirmary.
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