Sir William Hale-White (1857–1949), was a distinguished British physician and medical biographer. He was the son of writer Mark Rutherford. During the First World War he was a colonel in the RAMC and was created KBE in 1919[1]. He was president of the Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland in 1930[2] and also a president of the Royal Society of Medicine[3]. He was the brother-in-law of Sir Alfred Fripp, surgeon to Edward VII and George V.
His son, Reginald, was born in 1895 and also became a doctor. He was an expert on heroin[4].