Christopher John Dickinson, Emeritus Professor of Medicine, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry (2002-15); Chairman, Department of Medicine, St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College (1975-92) died on the 30 September 2015 at the age of 88. He was a long time supporter of The Physiology Society, a member since 1966. He was Senior Lecturer at UCH London then Professor of Medicine at St Barts (London). He was interested in the nervous control of essential hypertension and co-authored a popular textbook (Clinical Physiology, E. J. Moran Campbell, C. J. Dickinson, J. H. D. Slater, C. R. W. Edwards, E. K. Sikora 1984 etc). In the late 1960s he developed a suite of computer programs to teach aspects of clinical physiology including respiration (Macpuf), kidney function (Macpee), drug action (Macdope) and integrative aspects of the circulation (Macman). (Despite their name, these programmes were initially written for microcomputers and then rewritten for PCs).