Hilton David Draper

He was the son of Harry and Clara.

He went to Halifax with the Royal Engineers where he met his future wife. He would only return there after the war, having first worked for a veterinary pharmaceutical company in Somerset on demob. He married Doreen Halstead in 1947. In the 1960s they took on the running of the RSPCA clinic, with Hilton taking the manager's position, working out of prefabricated workshops at Woolshops. He would retire in 1985. In 1982 a circular from the RSCPA highlighted the risks from chloroform, widely used to put down animals for whom no homes could be found. It might cause kidney or liver damage and could be carcinogenic, and having recently had a kidney removed along with a neck tumour he realised the impact of his exposure over many years. Health problems would lead to early death just 3 years after retirement.