O'Brien, John Richard, son of Richard Alfred O'Brien CBE MD, bacteriologist, of Beckenham, Kent, and Nora McKay, violinist, d. of Benjamin Thomas McKay, engineer, of Maryborough, Queensland, Australia; b. 6 Nov. 1915; adm. Apr. 1929 (H), KS Sept. 1930; left July 1934; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1934, BA 1938, MA 1947; St Barth. Hosp. Med. Sch., MRCS LRCP BM 1940; MD 1950, FRCPath 1964, MRCP 1970, FRCP 1975; practised at Saltash, Cornwall, and Portsmouth; pathologist Plymouth 1947-53; consult. haematologist Portsmouth Gen. Hosp. 1953- 74; Reader in Haematology Univ. of Southampton 1974-; m. 1st 22 June 1939 Sybil Margaret, d. of Alfred Simeon Boyes of Sao Paulo, Brazil; 2nd 11 July 1958 Marie Vollam, d. of Joseph Vollam Morton of Carshalton, Surrey; d. 27 Oct. 2002.