David Richard Kilvington Street

Formerly Medical Superintendent, Rampton Hospital

David Street graduated MB ChB in Leeds in 1943 and was a house physician at Leeds General Infirmary until 1944 when he moved to Pinderfields Emergency Hospital, Wakefield. Between 1944 and 1946 David was the clinical assistant of the neurological unit attached to Sheffield Royal Hospital. It was here that he became involved in general psychiatry and neurology. His National Service between 1945 and 1948 was spent in psychiatry at Carstairs Military Hospital and Northfield Neurosis Centre, Birmingham. Between 1948 and 1951 he was a registrar at Clifton Hospital in York. His move to the post of senior registrar took him to the York Retreat but he returned to Clifton Hospital in 1952.

In 1957 he moved to Broadgate Hospital, Beverley, East Yorkshire. The following year, at the age of 38, he became Consultant Psychiatrist and Deputy Medical Superintendent at Rampton Hospital, Nottinghamshire. A few months later he was to become the Medical Superintendent, a position which he held with esteem until 1974. He moved in that year to Moss Side Hospital, Maghull, Liverpool and remained there until his retirement in 1980. Between 1960 and 1973 he was involved in much collaborative work on chromosome abnormalities and published several papers.

Dr Street was elected a founder member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 1971 and was elected to FRCPsych in 1989. He died on 7 June 2006, having been predeceased by his wife, Helen, in 2004. He leaves behind a daughter and two grandchildren.