Brilliant and talented young medic with 'wisdom beyond his years' dies near his own hospital after collision

By Daily Mail Reporter
Updated: 14:03 EST, 13 October 2010

A talented and dedicated young doctor has been killed in a road accident - just a mile from the hospital where he worked.

Ian Noble died after being knocked off his scooter in a collision with a car in Camberwell last Thursday.

Paramedics rushed him to King’s College Hospital where he worked, but it was too late to save him.

Gifted doctor Ian Noble died when he was knocked off his scooter. He is pictured here with his girlfriend Dr Annabel Scott

Life cut short: Gifted doctor Ian Noble died when he was knocked off his scooter. He is pictured here with his girlfriend Dr Annabel Scott

Eton-educated Dr Noble, 26, was in his second foundation year and on the British Medical Association’s board of directors. He trained at Sheffield University where he met his partner Dr Annabel Scott.

His mother, Joan Noble told how the couple had spoken of marriage and were planning to spend the rest of their lives together.

'It is such a devastating loss for all of us,' she said.

Mrs Noble spoke about how popular her son was, how he loved to travel and was passionate about sport.

'He had so much more to give,' she said, adding that he had spoken of wanting to become a politician as well as a doctor.

King's College Hospital in Camberwell, south London, where the gifted young medic Ian Noble worked

King's College Hospital in Camberwell, south London, where the gifted young medic Ian Noble worked

Colleagues and family paid tribute today to the brilliant medic whose boyhood ambition from the age of 11 was to become a doctor like his grandfather.

Mrs Noble said her son understood that you not only had to be clever, but needed to have the right character and temperament to be a doctor.

Dr Noble was committed to helping other people and travelled to Nepal and Uganda as part of his training, she explained.

She revealed that the medic was also politically aware and principled.

'On the night before his interview at King’s he slept in a tent outdoors in Edinburgh to protest against accommodation cuts for medical students,' she said.

Mrs Noble, from Kensington, who runs a European agricultural consultancy and her barrister husband, Roderick, heard of their son’s death while they were on a sailing holiday in Croatia.

Their son Jamie flew home from Kuala Lumpur, where he works as a banker,  to support his family.

Dr Noble was a Fulham supporter, a member of the Marylebone Cricket Club and a keen squash player.

His family say they plan to establish a bursary in his name to help future medical students.

BMA Council Chairman, Hamish Meldrum, said: 'Ian was such a bright, intelligent, engaging young man, with a maturity and wisdom beyond his years. He had already given a lot, but had so much more to offer.'

A 31-year-old man was arrested at the scene of the collision on suspicion of dangerous driving. He has been bailed to return in January next year.

Anyone with information should call police on 020 8941 9011 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.