Rheumatology Advance Access originally published online on October 5, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48(12):1622-1623; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep318
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John Holborow (1918–2009)
1Northwick Park Hospital, 2King's College London, London and 3School for Health, University of Bath, Bath, UK
Correspondence to: Viv Winrow, School for Health [7 West], University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY, UK. E-mail: v.r.winrow@bath.ac.uk
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A graduate of Clare College, Cambridge and St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, John Holborow was a member of the scientific staff of the MRC Rheumatism Research Unit at Taplow for most of its 1947–75 history. With Leonard Glynn, he was one of the first scientists to explore the contribution of autoimmunity to rheumatic fever, inflammatory arthritis and systemic CTDs in patients and animal models of autoimmune disease, and with his clinical collaborators, Eric Bywaters and Barbara Ansell, he created a model