page_title: Geoffrey Gillam
section_title: Private life
hierarchical_section_title: Geoffrey Gillam / Private life
caption_attribution_description: The church was completed in December 1823 to a design by John Nash.
context_page_description: Geoffrey Gerard Gillam FRCP was a British doctor and consultant cardiologist who became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.
  During the Second World War he was commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps and served in Normandy and British India, rising to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.
context_section_description: On 21 September 1929, at All Souls, Langham Place, Marylebone, Gillam was married to Mary Frances Oldaker Davies, daughter of Captain William Davies, by the Rev. Wilfrid Oldaker, a cousin of the bride, assisted by the Rev. Arthur Buxton. The wedding reception was at the Langham Hotel, and there followed a honeymoon in Brittany. They went on to have three sons, one of whom, P. M. S. Gillam, became a consultant and in due course followed his father as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. Another, J. F. R. Gillam, became headmaster of Ravenscroft School, Somerset. 
  In 1962, the family was living at 52, Augustus Road, Edgbaston.
  Gillam had many interests outside his work, including the works of William Shakespeare, poetry, music, fishing, and bird-watching. In retirement, he returned to live in his native Holt, but died soon afterwards. His widow survived him until November 1989, continuing to live at Hill House, Holt.
caption: All Souls, Langham Place
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