Archie Norman (paediatrician)

Archibald Norman, MBE, FRCP (19 July 1912 – 20 December 2016) was a British paediatrician, described in an obituary as "a pioneer in the treatment of respiratory diseases in children".^[1]

Archie Norman MBE, FRCP
Norman in June 2002
Born	Archibald Norman (1912-07-19)19 July 1912 Oban, Scotland
Died	20 December 2016(2016-12-20) (aged 104)
Nationality	United Kingdom
Occupation	Paediatrician
Employers	Middlesex County Council Great Ormond Street Hospital

Archie Norman was born in Oban, Scotland, the son of Mary (née MacCallum), a nurse, and George Norman, a radiologist.^[2] he was educated at Charterhouse School, then studied medicine at Cambridge University.^[2]

He was appointed as assistant Tuberculosis Officer at Middlesex County Council in 1939, before undertaking war service from 1940 to 1945,^[3] during which time he was a prisoner of war and led 150 troops to freedom after their liberation by Russian forces, for which he was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1945.^[2]

From 1950 he was a physician at Great Ormond Street Hospital, from where he retired in 1977.^[3]

He served as Chairman of the Research Committee of the Cystic Fibrosis Trust from 1978 to 1984.^[3]

The Children's Trust's residential rehabilitation centre at Tadworth is named in his honour.^[4]

He died on 20 December 2016, aged 104.^[2][5]