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Hugh Reginald Jolly (1918–1986) was a celebrated British paediatrician. A colleague, Bernard Mosely Laurance, wrote that Jolly "was probably better known to the general public than any other living doctor." An obituary in the Midwives Chronicle said he was "the paediatrician who brought common sense to baby care and whose books and broadcasts earned him an international reputation."

Early life

He was the son of the Rev. Reginald Bradley Jolly, from 1914 to 1920 vicar of St Thomas's Church, Douglas, Isle of Man, and his wife Muriel Ada Crawshaw, daughter of Simon Crawshaw of Ilkley; he was born on 5 May 1918 at Douglas.

Having qualified, Jolly spent three years, from 1944 to 1947, in the RAMC as a dermatologist, reaching the rank of captain. Treating British soldiers at Bandoeng, he met Dirk Bogarde. There was a further encounter in 1946 at Tanglin Barracks, a transit camp in Singapore. Bogarde became a family friend, and godfather to Jolly's daughter. Bogarde's biographer John Coldstream comments that Jolly was "Theatrical in temperament and stage-struck by inclination".

At Plymouth. Jolly trained June Lloyd, as she tried to make her way into paediatrics.

At Charing Cross Hospital

Jolly served as consultant paediatrician at Charing Cross Hospital from 1960 to 1984. Herbert Barrie was appointed as consultant paediatrician and colleague to Jolly in 1966. His son wrote that Jolly was:

a larger-than-life character with boundless enthusiasm who espoused the rights of parents and the 'whole child'. Innovative, certainly, but Jolly was not always an easy man to work with.

David Hall trained in paediatrics with Jolly and the psychologist Emmanuel Lewis.

Views

Jolly, Lewis and Stanford Bourne argued for a better psychological approach in medical practice after stillbirths. Also in this London group, sharing views on aspects of social medicine, was the paediatrician David Morris (1915–1989). Jolly's views were reported in a 1976 interview: he "wants to bring about a change in procedures and attitudes. He believes that mothers should be helped to see and to touch the dead baby".

On co-sleeping, Jolly's view was quoted:

Psychoanalysts may be firm in their advice that parents must never allow their children into their beds, but those who have practiced it know better and have not had any dire consequences to face — just the opposite.

Jolly has been called "An outspoken advocate for child-centered care" and a "children’s champion". He was noted as a supporter of the role of play in the care of children, and was the initial external examiner for the first training course, at Chiswick College, for hospital play specialists. It was set up with the guidance of Jolly, with Susan Harvey and Gabi Marston.

Child Development Centre

Jolly was Director of the Child Development Centre of Charing Cross Hospital. In 1972 it was on the Fulham Hospital site. It comprised a nursery for children of staff, an assessment unit where handicapped children would attend every day over three weeks, and a treatment unit. Jolly favoured paediatricians giving a summary letter of assessment findings to parents,

In 1970 Jolly brought in Nancy Ruth Finnie, a physical therapist at the Bobath Centre, as Deputy Director. Alison Levinge began a career as music therapist at the Centre, working with Jolly. He argued for the value of music therapy assessments. Elaine Streeter in Making Music with the Young Child with Special Needs (1993) thanked Jolly, after his death, for support at the Centre.

Media

Jolly wrote regularly on paediatrics for The Times. In 1977 he appeared in the ATV series All About Babies, for which he was a consultant, speaking to an audience of parents. That year, he gave an Australian Broadcasting Corporation lecture, published in 1978 as "Loss of a Baby".

Works

• Sexual Precocity (1955)
• Diseases of Children (1964), a standard textbook, ran to five editions, the fourth written with Malcolm Levene, who was credited as co-author of the 5th edition (1985).
• The Grandparents' Handbook: A Practical Guide to Enjoying the New Generation (1984)
• The First Five Years: Dr. Hugh Jolly Answers Questions from Parents (1987)

Family

Jolly married in 1944, as her second husband, Geraldine Mary Howard MB (1917–1990), daughter of the Hon. Michael Francis Stafford Howard and granddaughter of George Howard, 9th Earl of Carlisle. She had married, firstly in December 1943, Frederick Hume Jackson of the Royal Artillery, son of Major-Gen. George Jackson and his wife Eileen Dudgeon: the marriage was annulled in 1944 on Frederick's petition. The couple had two sons and a daughter.

Notes

1. ^ "Hugh Reginald Jolly, RCP Museum". history.rcp.ac.uk.
2. Midwives Chronicle. Vol. 99. Royal College of Midwives. 1986. p. 273.
3. ^ "Jolly, Hugh Reginald". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
4. "Jolly, Rev. Canon Reginald Bradley". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
5. "Manx Vicar's Wedding at Ilkley". Yorkshire Evening Post. 3 September 1913. p. 3.
6. Crockford's Clerical Directory. 1930. p. 698.
7. ^ Coldstream, John (8 September 2011). Dirk Bogarde: The authorised biography. Orion. ISBN 978-1-78022-174-8.
8. Bogarde, Dirk (15 January 2012). Cleared for Take-Off: A Memoir. A&C Black. ISBN 978-1-4482-0827-2.
9. Wolstenholme, Gordon (10 July 2006). "Lady Lloyd of Highbury". The Guardian.
10. Craft, Alan W. "Lloyd, June Kathleen, Baroness Lloyd of Highbury (1928–2006)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/97301. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
11. Barrie, Herbert; Barrie, Michael (editor) (31 July 2018). Putting Tiny Patients First. Troubador Publishing Ltd. p. xvi. ISBN 978-1-78901-416-7. {{cite book}}: |first2= has generic name (help)
12. Voss, Linda; Wilkin, Terry (19 June 2003). Adult Obesity: A Paediatric Challenge. CRC Press. p. ix. ISBN 978-0-203-98777-3.
13. Bueno, Julia (2 May 2019). The Brink of Being: An award-winning exploration of miscarriage and pregnancy loss. Little, Brown Book Group. p. 102. ISBN 978-0-349-01075-5.
14. Wretmark, Astrid Andersson (1993). Perinatal Death as a Pastoral Problem. Almqvist & Wiksell International. p. 59. ISBN 978-91-22-01559-8.
15. "David Morris, RCP Museum". history.rcp.ac.uk.
16. Nursing Mirror and Midwives Journal. Vol. 143. IPC Specialist and Professional Press. 1976. p. 40.
17. Torgus, Judy (1987). The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding. La Leche League International. p. 110. ISBN 978-0-912500-34-8.
18. Whitaker, Julia; Matsudaira, Chika (28 November 2022). "The Evolution of Hospital Play in the UK and Repercussions for Japan: A Socio-historical Perspective". Studies in Social Science Research. 3 (4): 185. doi:10.22158/sssr.v3n4p178.
19. Macqueen, Susan; Bruce, Elizabeth Anne; Gibson, Faith (20 April 2012). The Great Ormond Street Hospital Manual of Children's Nursing Practices. John Wiley & Sons. p. 611. ISBN 978-1-4443-6117-9.
20. Hubbuck, Catherine (2009). Play for Sick Children: Play Specialists in Hospitals and Beyond. Jessica Kingsley Publishers. p. 26. ISBN 978-1-84310-654-8.
21. Whitaker, Julia; Matsudaira, Chika (28 November 2022). "The Evolution of Hospital Play in the UK and Repercussions for Japan: A Socio-historical Perspective". Studies in Social Science Research. 3 (4): 187. doi:10.22158/sssr.v3n4p178.
22. ^ Schleichkorn, Jay (1992). The Bobaths: A Biography of Berta and Karel Bobath. Neuro-Developmental Treatment Association. p. 29. ISBN 978-0-88450-493-1.
23. Scientific Research in British Universities and Colleges. H.M. Stationery Office. 1972. p. 374.
24. Dale, Naomi (7 March 2008). Working with Families of Children with Special Needs: Partnership and Practice. Routledge. p. 211. ISBN 978-1-134-82323-9.
25. Edwards, Jane (7 July 2011). Music Therapy and Parent-Infant Bonding. OUP Oxford. p. xii. ISBN 978-0-19-958051-4.
26. Wigram, Tony; Saperston, Bruce; West, Robert (8 October 2013). Art & Science of Music Therapy: A Handbook. Routledge. p. 184. ISBN 978-1-134-36262-2.
27. Streeter, Elaine (1993). Making Music with the Young Child with Special Needs: A Guide for Parents. J. Kingsley Publishers. p. 7. ISBN 978-1-85302-187-9.
28. Grigg, John (1993). The History of the Times. Vol. VI. p. 139. ISBN 978-0-7230-0610-7.
29. Robinson, John (1982). Learning Over the Air: 60 Years of Partnership in Adult Learning. British Broadcasting Corporation. p. 203. ISBN 978-0-563-20092-5.
30. Jolly, Hugh (March 1978). "Loss of a Baby". Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health. 14 (1): 3–5. doi:10.1111/j.1440-1754.1978.tb02930.x.
31. Jolly, Hugh (1955). Sexual Precocity. Thomas. ISBN 978-0-398-04297-4.
32. Rudolf, Mary; Luder, Anthony; Jeavons, Kerry (28 September 2020). Essential Paediatrics and Child Health. John Wiley & Sons. p. 7. ISBN 978-1-119-42022-4.
33. Jolly, Hugh (1984). The Grandparents' Handbook: A Practical Guide to Enjoying the New Generation. Winston Press. ISBN 978-0-86683-847-4.
34. Jolly, Hugh (1987). The First Five Years: Dr. Hugh Jolly Answers Questions from Parents. Pagoda. ISBN 978-0-946326-11-2.
35. Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage. Kelly's Directories. 1971. p. 211.
36. "Dr. Geraldine Mary Howard, MB, BS". British Medical Journal. 302 (6770): 234. 1991. ISSN 0959-8138.
37. Kelly's (1943). Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes. Kelly's Directories. p. 999.
38. "Jackson-Howard". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. 20 December 1943. p. 3.
39. Addison, Henry Robert; Oakes, Charles Henry; Lawson, William John; Sladen, Douglas Brooke Wheelton (1897). Who's who: An Annual Biographical Dictionary. A. & C. Black. p. 762.