Nick Rutter

Dr Nicholas Rutter was a Professor of Paediatric Medicine at the Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham.

He studied at Framlingham College after receiving a scholarship from from
Brandeston Hall. After leaving the College he
studied Natural Sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge and Medicine at St Thomas’s Hospital, London, qualifying as a doctor
in 1970.
After training posts in London, including the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, he went to Nottingham as a registrar in paediatrics. He joined the academic staff at the new medical school there as a lecturer and became a senior lecturer/consultant paediatrician in 1978.

As a paediatrician, he specialised in intensive care of the newborn, paediatric cardiology and general paediatric medicine.
As an academic he researched into the physiology of the full term and premature newborn, in particular the function of the newborn skin. He was awarded the degree of Doctor of Medicine (Cambridge) for this work. He was instrumental in developing the undergraduate teaching programme in paediatrics at Nottingham and started a postgraduate course.
In 1994 he was made Professor of Paediatric Medicine. For four years he was Admissions Dean for the Nottingham Medical School. He
is an honorary life member of the British Association of Perinatal Medicine and the Neonatal Society.

He retired in 2005, remaining an Emeritus Professor, and later also achieved an honours degree in Modern Languages with the Open University.

His only dalliance with acting came through living with a member of the production team of Doctor Who when at St Thomas, and played an extra in The Krotons to earn some cash.

Socially he was a bass chorister.

Details thanks to Old Framlinghams and Terry Boniface