Anton Sebastianpillai


Anton Sebastianpillai Fellow of the [Royal College of Physicians|FRCP], was a British historian, author and consultant geriatrician, of Sri Lankan Tamil origin.

Biography

He had his primary and secondary education at St Sylvester's College, Kandy and trained at Peradeniya Medical School, in Sri Lanka, qualifying in 1967.
He gave talks to the Foreign Correspondents' Club, New Delhi, India, and gave the 'Millennium Oration' of the Sri Lanka [Medical Association of North America].
He died on 4 April 2020, at Kingston Hospital, London, after contracting COVID-19 while working there. He had been admitted to the hospital's intensive care unit on 31 March and was aged 75.
He was a bibliophile, with a collection of rare books on Sri Lanka and on medical history.

Works

As Anton Sebastian he wrote a number of reference works:
His Dictionary of the History of Medicine won a British Medical Association Medical Book Award.