Jolly , Hugh , 1918-1986 , paediatrician

Hugh Reginald Jolly, FRCP (1918-1986) was a paediatrician. An outline of Jolly's career follows: Qualified in medicine, 1942; worked in London (The West London Hospital, The London Hospital and the North Middlesex Hospital) and with RAMC in Britain and abroad (last posting as dermatologist to the Allied Forces in the Netherlands East Indies), 1940s; various posts, Great Ormond Street Hospital, 1948-1951; resident at the Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, USA, 1951; 1951-1960 Consultant Paediatrician, Freedom Fields Hospital, Plymouth, 1951-1960; Sexual Precocity, 1955; Consultant Paediatrician, Charing Cross Hospital, 1960-1983; Professor of Child Health, University College, Ibadan, Nigeria, 1961-1962; Diseases of Children, 1964; Paediatrician in charge at Charing Cross Hospital, 1965-1983; Visiting Professor in Child Health, Ghana Medical School, 1967-1969;
columnist for The Times, 1970s; founded Child Development Centre at Charing Cross Hospital, 1971; Commonsense About Babies and Children, 1973; Book of Child Care, 1975; More Commonsense About Babies and Children, 1978; 1980 Consultant Paediatrician, British Airways, 1980; retired, 1983; The First Five Years, 1985;
The Grandparents' Handbook, 1985; died 1986.