Anton Sebastianpillai FRCP (23 January 1945 – 4 April 2020), was a British historian, author (writing as Anton Sebastian) and consultant

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, of Sri Lankan

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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

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, London, after contracting

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while working there. He had been admitted to the hospital's

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on 31 March and was aged 75. He was a

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, with a collection of rare books on Sri Lanka and on

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Works

As Anton Sebastian he wrote a number of reference works: * * * * His ''Dictionary of the History of Medicine'' won a

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Medical Book Award.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sebastianpillai, Anton 1940s births 2020 deaths 20th-century British non-fiction writers 20th-century Sri Lankan historians Alumni of the University of Ceylon (Peradeniya) British bibliophiles 20th-century British medical doctors 21st-century British medical doctors Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in England British geriatricians Place of birth missing Sri Lankan emigrants to the United Kingdom Sri Lankan non-fiction writers Sri Lankan Tamil people Sri Lankan medical doctors Sri Lankan Tamil writers Year of birth missing Sri Lankan historians 20th-century British historians 21st-century British historians