“A coroner must be humane, fair and fearless in obtaining the truth. That is why I have put my head above the parapet.”

— Montague Levine

Quoted in Daily Telegraph obituary http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9878394/Sir-Montague-Levine.html

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British surgeon 1922–2013

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