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Richard Porter, Obstetrician and Gynaecologist

© the artist. Image credit: Girton College, University of Cambridge

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Born in London in 1951 and educated at Eton, Richard Porter knew that his career was heading towards obstetrics and gynaecology long before he graduated from Oxford University. After several training posts, including Oxford, Watford, St Mary’s and Cambridge, he was appointed a consultant in Bath in 1989, where he now lives with his wife and two grown-up daughters. They do things differently in the Bath Maternity Services. As soon as he arrived, Richard Porter was set the task of demonstrating the intellectual credibility of a service which took a very old-fashioned approach to childbirth, but placed it in a modern context. The late twentieth-century orthodoxy of high technology for all deliveries took a back seat, while home deliveries in small community maternity units were strongly encouraged.

Royal Society of Portrait Painters People's Portraits collection at Girton College, University of Cambridge

Cambridge

Title

Richard Porter, Obstetrician and Gynaecologist

Date

2000

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 86 x W 113 cm

Accession number

470

Acquisition method

on loan from the Royal Society of Portrait Painters

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

signature

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Royal Society of Portrait Painters People's Portraits collection at Girton College, University of Cambridge

Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB3 0JG England

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