Oliver Wrong was Emeritus Professor of Medicine at University College London Medical School and one of Britain’s most distinguished physicians, serving the NHS throughout his career. He was a pioneering medical researcher, pre-eminent in his field and active right up to his death, but he never lost sight of his patients. He had what Denis Healey once called an intellectual hinterland, as unusual among doctors as it is among politicians. This embraced flora and fauna, history and art, an adoration of J. S. Bach, and an insatiable curiosity about the world around him.
Wrong was a member of a talented, sometimes eccentric — but always engaging — family which embraced, through marriage, the writer Naomi Mitchison; the Labour Minister Peter Shore; the Canadian intellectual Michael