In 1985, my brother, Bruce Philp, who has died aged 59, became the first person to row for both Oxford and Cambridge in the Boat Race. Part of the winning Oxford crew that year, he was featured in a front-page photo in the Guardian. When a journalist asked him who his influences were, he said “Philby, Burgess and Maclean”.
Bruce was a plastic surgeon, specialising in the treatment of burns. He read natural sciences then medicine at Downing College, Cambridge and continued his medical studies at Worcester College, Oxford, before undertaking his plastic surgery training at London hospitals including St Thomas’ and St George’s, Tooting.
