Sir Nigel Ralph Southward, KCVO (born 1941) is a retired British doctor, and apothecary to the Queen. Southward is the son of the surgeon Sir Ralph Southward FRCP, who had been the previous apothecary to the Queen. He was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge (receiving the MB BChir degree in 1965), and Middlesex Hospital Medical School."Southward, Sir Nigel (Ralph)"
''Who's Who'' (online ed., Oxford University Press, December 2018). Retrieved 6 June 2019. He started work as a doctor at Middlesex Hospital in 1965 and became a physician at the Royal Berkshire Hospital and the Central Middlesex Hospital the following year. In 1975, he was appointed Apothecary to the Queen and to the Household, and to the Households of

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on New Year's Eve 1986. Southward retired in 2003. Southward was appointed a Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order in the

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, promoted to Commander in the

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, and to Knight Commander on retirement in February 2003.
The London Gazette
', 21 February 2003 (issue 56854), notice L-56854-1006.

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