William Hale-White

For his father, William Hale White, see Hale White.
Sir William Hale-White
Born (1857-11-07)7 November 1857
London, England
Died 26 February 1949(1949-02-26) (aged 91)
Oxford
Nationality United Kingdom
Occupation physician

Sir William Hale-White KBE MD FRCP (7 November 1857 – 26 February 1949) was a distinguished British physician and medical biographer.

He was the son of writer Mark Rutherford.

Career

He was appointed an Assistant Physician at Guy’s Hospital in 1886, a Physician in 1890 and Consulting Physician from 1917. During the First World War he was a colonel in the RAMC and was created KBE in 1919.[1]

He was elected president of the Medical Society of London (1920-), the Royal Society of Medicine (1922–1924) [1] and of the Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland (1930).[2]

Family life

Hale-White married in 1886 to Edith Fripp the daughter of Alfred Downing Fripp and sister of Sir Alfred Fripp, surgeon to Edward VII and George V.[3] They had one son who became a physician. His wife died in 1945 and Hale-White died at his home in Oxford on 26 February 1949 aged 91.[3]

Books

References

  1. 1 2 "SIR WILLIAM HALE-WHITE KBE, MD, FRCP (1870-74)" (PDF). Society of Old Framlinghamians. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
  2. Association of Physicians. associationofphysicians.co.uk.
  3. 1 2 "Sir W. Hale-White Medicine And History" (Obituaries). The Times (London). Monday, 26 February 1949. (51317), col E, p. 7.

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