A PLAQUE to honour a leading Bromsgrove GP has been unveiled at his former school.

Professor Sir Michael Drury received the special tribute at Bromsgrove School’s Lipton House building on Tuesday, September 6, which was attended by his family and children.

Sir Michael was a pupil at the school from 1939 to 1943 at its base in Llanwrtyd Hall, Wales, during the Second World War, later studying medicine at the University of Birmingham.

He went on to become a well-respected Governor, Chairman of the Education Committee and Vice-President of Bromsgrove School before his death in 2014.

Headmaster Peter Clague said: "Professor Sir Michael Drury was a truly inspiring and remarkable man and his legacy to our school and community is immeasurable."

After qualifying from university in 1949, he became House Surgeon at Birmingham General Hospital, a Surgical Officer in Kidderminster and a Major in the Royal Army Medical Corps.

Considered one of the medical leaders of his generation, he was appointed with an OBE in 1978 and a Knight Batchelor in 1989, after a 38-year career as a GP in Bromsgrove in 1953.

He wrote two books in the management of General Practice and was later elected Chairman of the Practice Organisation Committee of the Royal College of General Practitioners.