About John Chalstrey
Lived 1931 – 2020 (aged 88). John Chalstrey was a British surgeon.
Sir Leonard John Chalstrey (17 March 1931 – 12 March 2020) was a consultant surgeon and was 668th Lord Mayor of London from 1995 to 1996.
In 1995, he was knighted and named Master Apothecary of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries.
He studied at Queens' College, Cambridge (1951–54) before transferring to Barts Medical School to complete his clinical medical training (1954–57).
From 1969 to 1996, Chalstrey was a senior lecturer at St Bartholomew's Medical College, about the historical funding of which he gave an address at Mansion House on 11 June 2001.
He was made a knight of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem in 1995. He was an Honorary Colonel in the City of London Field Hospital of Royal Army Medical Corps.
Chalstrey was married in 1958 to Aileen Bayes; they had one son and one daughter.
Death Sir John Chalstrey died at his home on 12 March 2020 at the age of 88.
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Lord Mayor of London
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John Chalstrey was born on 17 March 1931.
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