Stanley died in October 2023, aged 98. He grew up within the David Lewis Centre – his father was engineer there – and, after King’s, where Head TT Shaw recommended a career in medicine to him, he qualified in 1948 in Medicine at Manchester University.

After two years national service as an army anaesthetist based in Gibraltar, he returned to a career as a doctor locally. He was 
a highly respected GP in Chelford for many years, as well as a consultant anaesthetist 
in various Manchester hospitals.

At school, he had been a Fives player (courts behind the Physics Block, later the bike sheds!), but his main interest outside medicine throughout his adult life was as a very keen gardener.