Mike Scott-Kerr died on 26 February 2023 in Canada, aged 87. The following has been written his family.

We are sad to announce that on 26 February 2023, Mike passed away after a courageous battle with cancer. Mike was born in Eccleshall, Staffordshire on 19 October 1935. His family then moved to Cheltenham, and he spent his early years there before leaving for three years with his mother and brother to attend boarding school in Wales during WWII. He returned to Cheltenham towards the end of the war to finish his schooling at College, where he excelled at sports, achieving awards in rowing (he was the stroke for the 1st IV), handball, and track. He joined the Boy Scouts, becoming a first-class scout with honours, a troop leader, and travelling to Norway. After the war, the family would vacation in France, with stops at his uncle’s winery in the Nuit St. George commune. After high school, Mike embarked on a three-week cycling holiday in France with a friend.

Mike attended Pembroke College, Cambridge where he received a Bachelor of Arts, a Bachelor of Surgery, and a Bachelor of Medicine. He completed his residency at Guy’s Hospital in London, winning the Golding Bird Gold Medal in Obstetrics and Gynaecology and being admitted to the Royal College of Surgeons of England and the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1960. Shortly after qualifying as a doctor, he did a tour as ship doctor aboard the MV (Motor Vessel) Glengyle, the ‘Lucky’ Glen, where he travelled through the Suez Canal to the Far East with stops in Singapore, Shanghai and Japan. This experience had a profound impact on his life, and he talked extensively about this trip. He worked in London as a general practitioner before going to Canada in 1963. After completing a one-year residency in anaesthesia at the University of Alberta, he moved to Nelson with his fiancée, Eleanor, to start work in Canada as a GP/anaesthetist. After a year in Nelson, he relocated to the Medical Arts Clinic in Nanaimo on Vancouver Island.