Sir Nigel Ralph Southward, KCVO (born 1941) is a retired British doctor, and apothecary to the Queen.
Southward is the son of the surgeon Sir Ralph Southward FRCP, who had been the previous apothecary to the Queen.[1] He was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge (receiving the MB BChir degree in 1965), and Middlesex Hospital Medical School.[2][3]
He started work as a doctor at Middlesex Hospital in 1965 and became a physician at the Royal Berkshire Hospital and the Central Middlesex Hospital the following year.[2] In 1975, he was appointed Apothecary to the Queen and to the Household,[4] and to the Households of Princess Margaret, Princess Alice, and Duke and Duchess of Gloucester.[2] He was also appointed Apothecary to the Household of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother on New Year's Eve 1986.[5] Southward retired in 2003.[2]
Southward was appointed a Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order in the 1985 New Year Honours,[6] promoted to Commander in the 1995 New Year Honours,[7] and to Knight Commander on retirement in February 2003.[8]
^Bayliss, Richard (1997). "Ralph (Sir) Southward". Lives of the Fellows (Munk's Roll). Retrieved 6 June 2019.
^ abcd"Southward, Sir Nigel (Ralph)", Who's Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, December 2018). Retrieved 6 June 2019.
^The Medical Directory 2015, 169th ed. (Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2015), vol. 1, p. 3944.
^The London Gazette, 3 January 1975 (issue 46453), p. 109.
^The London Gazette, 2 January 1987 (issue 50791), p. 16959.
^The London Gazette, 31 December 1984 (supplement 49969), p. 4.
^The London Gazette, 30 December 1994 (supplement 53893), p. 4.
^The London Gazette, 21 February 2003 (issue 56854), notice L-56854-1006.
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