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Sidney Dyke

¹ 18 Park Avenue, Dronfield, Derbyshire S18 2LQ, UK
² Tanyards, Rowsel’s Lane, Totnes, Devon TQ9 5AG, UK
³ 8 Broxwood Park, Tettenhall Wood, Wolverhampton WV6 8LZ, UK

Correspondence to:
Dr W R Timperley, 18 Park Avenue, Dronfield, Derbyshire S18 2LQ, UK;
wrt@sheffield.ac.uk

Keywords: Sidney Dyke; Association of Clinical Pathologists; founder member

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The founding of the Association of British Pathologists (later the Association of Clinical Pathologists (ACP)) in 1927 was testimony to Dyke’s professional standing and drive and was the springboard for his inspired leadership. During the course of his professional life and into retirement he had a profound and wholly beneficial influence on the practice of pathology in the UK, in Europe, and in much of the world.

Sidney Campbell Dyke was born on 5 September 1886 and died on 3 March 1975, aged 88. His early life was complicated, his father having gone to Canada, leaving him to live with his father’s brother, Edward. His aunt Kate, Edward’s wife, had lost her only son at the age of 14, one year before Sidney was born, and it seems likely that she conferred some of her affection for her son to Sidney. He certainly grew up to be a . . . [Full text of this article]