Neville Robinson Rowell

Abstract

Neville Rowell was born and educated in Newcastle upon Tyne, where he was also a medical student and worked in the junior medical ranks at the Royal Victoria Infirmary. He obtained membership of the Royal Colleges of Physicians in 1957 and moved to Leeds in 1958 as tutor and senior registrar in dermatology. He was appointed consultant in 1961, became head of department in 1973, and received a personal chair in 1988. He retired in 1990. Neville strove to expand and improve the dermatology department, which was …