Morgan David Enoch, MBBS, DPM, FRCPsych

was a tenacious campaigner for humane mental healthcare.As a young consultant he exposed overcrowded wards and appalling conditions in long-stay hospitals, politely but persistently lobbying politicians such as Minister of Health Enoch Powell to close the asylums and invest in community services.His activism, wryly dismissed by ministers including Sir Kenneth Robinson as troublemaking, helped lay the groundwork for Britain's shift towards care in the community.Born in 1926 in Penygroes, South Wales, David was the son of Tom, a coal hewer, and his wife, Maisy.Tom was adamant that his son should not follow him down the pit, and David was a sixth-form student planning to read theology when, just before the end of the Second World War, a letter from the king conscripted him into the army.After training at the Indian Military Academy in Dehradun, he was commissioned into the Royal Artillery and posted to the Second Indian (Sikhs) Field Regiment during the violent