Anton Sebastianpillai | |
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Born | c. 1944
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Died |
Kingston Hospital
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Other names | Anton Sebastian
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Alma mater | |
Occupation |
Consultant,
geriatrician,
author,
lexicographer,
historian, bibliophile
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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. [1]
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. [2]
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. [3]
He died on 4 April 2020, at Kingston Hospital, London, after contracting COVID-19 while working there. [2] [4] He had been admitted to the hospital's intensive care unit on 31 March [1] and was aged 75. [5]
He was a bibliophile, with a collection of rare books on Sri Lanka and on medical history. [3] [6]
As Anton Sebastian he wrote a number of reference works:
His Dictionary of the History of Medicine won a British Medical Association Medical Book Award. [3]
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Anton Sebastianpillai | |
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Born | c. 1944
![]() Sri Lanka ![]() |
Died |
Kingston Hospital
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Other names | Anton Sebastian
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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. [1]
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. [2]
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. [3]
He died on 4 April 2020, at Kingston Hospital, London, after contracting COVID-19 while working there. [2] [4] He had been admitted to the hospital's intensive care unit on 31 March [1] and was aged 75. [5]
He was a bibliophile, with a collection of rare books on Sri Lanka and on medical history. [3] [6]
As Anton Sebastian he wrote a number of reference works:
His Dictionary of the History of Medicine won a British Medical Association Medical Book Award. [3]
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