Tribute to Robert Geoffrey Twycross, 1941 - 2024

Thank you Robert, for your inspiration and dedication to improving palliative care around the world. You gave me the opportunity to teach at Sobell House and to join the educational initiative you were supporting in India in the 1990s when I was starting out as a consultant in palliative medicine. Thank you for your mentorship.

I miss our catchups, Dr Twycross, on Sunday mornings in the Nature Reserve. I once joked, “I’m turning into the wild woman of the woods”. “Turning?” You asked dryly.

We were so lucky to be welcomed by Robert and Deirdre when we first moved to Headington Quarry and started to attend Holy Trinity Church. We have fond memories of Robert as an inspiring human being, wonderful neighbour and fellow Christian. We keep Deirdre and the family in our thoughts and prayers.

Thank you so much, Robert, for your inspiration & for the outstanding clarity of your teaching. Like Mary, I will go to my own grave knowing that 'Amitriptyline is a dirty drug'! I treasure the teaching opportunities you gave me: together at the Indian Health Service in Albuquerque; & you trusting that I knew the way across Budapest via various trams to reach the hospice for the courses you supported within that partnership. Your spiritual honesty & rigour is powerfully moving. I hope that we meet again.

A small donation to further Robert's inspirational life's work.

With love and thanks for your friendship and welcome in to your family, the Moldung family in Norway.

Donation to help carry on Robert's work at Sobell House.

I've had the privilege of knowing Robert since we first met at St Christopher's in 1973 when guided by Duncan Vere he did his groundbreaking work on Morphine. He's been an incredibly talented colleague and good friend ever since (Richard). Bee joined him and his team in 1995 to help build on his National and International Education programme at the Study Centre. And now he works on AD. What a legacy!

Thank you Robert. It was such a privilege to work with you at Sobell, especially in those pioneering days. You were an inspiration.

Thank you Robert for your kindness and for being such an inspiration.

Grateful for all the ways he changed the world for the better.