page_title: David Westbury
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: David Westbury / Early life
caption_attribution_description: Group photo of Guy's medical students who went to Belsen, standing on steps outside (the hospital&#63;) Archives &amp; Manuscripts Keywords: Allen Percival Prior; Bergen-Belsen
context_page_description: David George Arthur Westbury was described in his obituary by the Royal College of Psychiatrists as a "founding father of British forensic psychiatry". In 1945, while studying medicine at Guy's Hospital, he assisted at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp as a voluntary medical student.
  He spent his career in posts at St Audry's Hospital, Melton, Suffolk and then at Hellesdon Hospital, Norwich. After gaining the diploma in psychiatry he was elected member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and became a fellow soon after. He became a member of the Prison Medical Services in 1964, and was appointed medical officer at HM Prison Durham until 1967, when he joined the Home Office as consultant forensic psychiatrist. In this position, he established the academic discipline of forensic psychiatry in the northern region, and for teenage male offenders, created the forensic psychiatry centre at the Winterton Hospital, Sedgefield. He was a medical member of the Mental Health Review Tribunal and continued to teach his specialty for several years.
  After his death following a long illness, the David Westbury Centre, an establishment he founded, was named in his honour.
context_section_description: David Westbury was born on 12 September 1923 in Rugby, Warwickshire, and educated at Rugby School.
  He studied medicine at Guy's Hospital in London, and in 1945 was one of the London medical students who assisted at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. He qualified MBBS in 1947.
caption: Guy's Hospital medical students who went to Belsen. Pictured from left to right: D. Davies, D. Strange, J. S. Jones, D. Rahilly, D. Westbury, M. E. Davys, D. S. Hurwood, D. H. Forsdick, J. V. Kilby, J. E. Mandel, J. L. Hayward and J. A. Turner.[2]
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