Roy Porter "History of Science" for many years. In 2007 Roberta Bivins and John V. Pickstone edited "Medicine, Madness and Social History: Essays in Honour of Roy Porter" (Palgrave Macmillan). Several of the essays address Porter's work directly, and William F. Bynum appends a biographical sketch. Roy Porter Roy Sydney Porter, FBA (31 December 1946 – 3 March 2002) was a British historian known for his important work on the history of medicine. He retired in 2001 from the director of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine at University College, London (UCL). Porter grew up in South London and attended
William Watson (writer) to enhance his excellent descriptions of places and intelligent conversations throughout the books. He died in an Edinburgh nursing home on 5 December 2005 after a long illness. He left a wife Catherine Robins. Published under the pseudonym of J.K. Mayo. William Watson (writer) William Hugh Charles Watson was a Scottish author, playwright and newspaper editor. He was initially Literary and then Features editor of the Scotsman newspaper. Born in Edinburgh on 30 April 1931, he attended Edinburgh Academy and then entered Edinburgh and Oxford universities but did not complete either course. He commenced writing novels in 1969 with "Better