ABSTRACT
Robin Pinsent served as a member of the steering committee which set up the College in 1952 and he would go on to play a crucial part in the research activity of the College. On 20 January 1952, he wrote a proposal for a research organisation within the College and the College’s Research Committee was formed by Pinsent in 1953. The importance of Pinsent’s work in the research activity of the College can be shown by his collaboration with Crombie at the internationally renowned Birmingham Research Unit, with its roots in the early 1960s and set up in its current form in 1967. Aside from the impact he made on research and general practice, Pinsent was also interested in homeopathy. He examined the impact of the environment on health and his insistence on bringing attention to the possible interplay between the two was an example of his vision.
