Rheumatology Advance Access originally published online on April 4, 2006
Rheumatology 2006 45(7):927-928; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kel085
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Leonard Glynn 1910–2005
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‘Taplow’ is a name that resonates in the memories of most rheumatologists who witnessed the post-war maturation of their discipline into a recognized branch of modern scientific medicine. It lives on also in classical rheumatological papers and in ideas that have become so universally familiar that their source is all too often taken for granted. In 1947 the Special Unit for Juvenile Rheumatism was established at the Canadian Red Cross Memorial Hospital in Taplow, Buckinghamshire and in 1958 it came under the aegis of the Medical Research Council (MRC) as the Rheumatism Research Unit. The clinical skills and investigative achievements of Eric Bywaters and Barbara Ansell would in themselves have secured Taplow's place in rheumatological history, despite its physical demise. But it has an additional claim to lasting fame. In 1947 Leonard Glynn was appointed consultant pathologist to the hospital and the newly established unit. In 1958 he became the