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| Dr.Hugo Donal Coghlan |
| 13/12/1925 to 16/12/2002 |
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| Remember me when I have gone away, Gone far away into a silent land; When you can no more hold me by the hand, Nor I half turn to go, yet turning stay. Remember me when no more day by day, You tell me of our future that we planned; Only remember me; you understand It will be too late to counsel then or pray, Yet if you should forget me for a while And afterwards remember, do not grieve; For if the darkness and corruption leave A vestige of the thoughts that once I had Better by far you should forget and smile Than you should remember and be sad. Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) |
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| An honest man here lies at rest, As e'er God with his image blest, The friend of man, the friend of truth, The friend of age, and guide of youth; Few hearts like his, with virtue warm'd, Few heads with knowledge so inform'd; If there's another world, he lives in bliss; If there is none, he made the best of his. by Robert Burns |
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| My Father and Mother were happily married for 50 years. They met while my father was a medical student attending the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin, Ireland. He was the son of a staunch Catholic family, his father being Daniel Coghlan of Clontarf. My mother was a Protestant and this was the late forties in Ireland! They did however, overcome all the ensuing problems and married in 1952, for theirs was truly a love match. After my father obtained his Doctorate he joined the Elder Dempster Shipping Line and went to sea on the SS Oriole for a couple of years as the ships Medical Officer, sailing the route to the Cape of Good Hope in Africa. After I was born in 1953 they moved to England to join a practice in Chesterfield, Derbyshire and the following year, 1954, my sister Diane was born. To be continued...... |
| Dorothy Maureen Coghlan (Nee Hunter) |
| 21/4/1925 to 29/3/2004 |