LORD NUFFIELD

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 2, 18 January 1937, Page 6

LORD NUFFIELD

Money Means Nothing To This Peer BORED BY SUCCESS Lord Nuffield, who has given £1,350,(HK for medical teaching to Oxford University, disclosed that his first ambition in life was to become a surgeon. «'But there was not enough money for surgery, so I had to take on the next best thing — mechanics," he said. "I reached the stage when I was getting bored by making money for my- ' self. I can honestly say money means nothing to me. "I could cheerfully go back to where I started in a bicycle shop. I might be happier if I did. "Now that I have sold some of the Morris shares I have a new incentive in working for the shareholders instead of myself. ' ' Talking about his new scheme for the medical. school at Oxford, Lord Nuffield said: "I do not think I could do better work than look after others who are not so well off as I am." He wanted to go back to the point of view of the clever student at Oxford who showed,signs of skill at medicine or surgery in early study. In ordinary cases such a man would go to some institution and might become a specialist — but he would be lost to teaching. "That man is so busy going from one ease to another," said Lord Nuffield, "that in many inst,ances he cannot even stop to see the resuit of his work." "My object is to enable that man to eontinue his studies ' and at the same time teach other brilliant men." Sir Farquhar Buzzard, Eegius Professor of Medicine at Oxford and Physician to the King, addressing the Oxford Luncheon Club, described Lord Nuffield 's offer to Oxford University as "almost as remarkable for its insight into the future of medicine as it is for its unrivalled magnitude and generosity." To regard it as an impulsive gestura of goodwill to the university would he unfair, he said. The gift made possible a place where those working at the bedside could be in close collaboration with people working in laboratories.