William Hale-White
| Sir William Hale-White | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born |
7 November 1857 London, England |
| Died |
26 February 1949 (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
- Great Doctors of the Nineteenth Century, 1935
- Keats as Doctor and Patient, 1938
- Materia medica, pharmacology and therapeutics (assisted by Arthur Henry Douthwaite), London, Churchill, 1949, 1959, 1963.
References
- 1 2 "SIR WILLIAM HALE-WHITE KBE, MD, FRCP (1870-74)" (PDF). Society of Old Framlinghamians. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
- ↑ Association of Physicians. associationofphysicians.co.uk.
- 1 2 "Sir W. Hale-White Medicine And History". Obituaries. The Times (51317). London. 26 February 1949. col E, p. 7.
External links
- Biography
- Sketch by Sir William Rothenstein