Harold Fuller was a GP based in Eastleigh. He was born in Norwood, south London, in 1914. He was educated at Battersea Grammar School and awarded a Warneford scholarship to King's College Hospital, where he qualified in 1937, with honours in medicine, surgery and pathology, a unique triple for which he was awarded the university medal. After junior posts at King's, he passed the FRCS and joined the Red Cross surgical team in Ethiopia, where he worked in the Haile Selassie I Hospital in Addis Ababa. There he was joined by a King's nurse, Marjorie Noyes, and they were married in Addis in January 1943. The Emperor took a great interest in the hospital and Harold was invited both to dinner at the palace, and to a reception on the marriage of the Emperor's daughter. He was transferred to hospitals in Syria and Transjordan in September 1943 and on, leaving the Red Cross team, served as a locum surgeon in the Edinburgh Medical Mission Hospital in Nazareth. After the Second World War, on returning to the UK, he held surgical registrar posts in Beckenham, but the prospect of a consultant appointment seemed very poor. There were now two sons and a daughter to consider, so he turned to general practice in Eastleigh, remaining there until he retired. Fuller was a remarkable man in many respects: gifted with a prodigious memory and being a great reader, he became an authority on any subject that took his interest, from medicine, through to ornithology and Biblical scholarship. He and Marjorie were loyal members of Eastleigh Baptist Church and Harold was a frequent preacher in the district. He was co-author of a book on Christians in medicine. He did not tolerate bureaucracy, and NHS functionaries were the target of his wrath. On retirement, Harold and Marjorie moved to Alresford, in Hampshire. There Marjorie suffered a severe hemiplegia in 1990 and remained chair-bound. Harold, notably incompetent in domestic matters, took over and became an excellent cook. Their elder son Peter, a distinguished art critic and founder editor of the magazine *Modern painters*, predeceased them in a road accident. Their daughter, Ruth, became a consultant psychotherapist. Their younger son, Ian, is a social worker in Staffordshire. Harold developed carcinoma of the prostate with metastases, but died of a myocardial infarction on 12 January 1997.