William Hale-White
| Sir William Hale-White | |
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| 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. 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]
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.[4] They had one son who became a physician. His wife died in 1945 and Hale-White died at his home in Oxford in 26 February 1949 aged 91.[4]
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
- ↑ Mark (William Hale White Rutherford) – LoveToKnow 1911
- ↑ Association of Physicians. associationofphysicians.co.uk.
- ↑ SIR WILLIAM HALE-WHITE KBE, MD, FRCP (1870–74). oldframlinghamian.com.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Sir W. Hale-White Medicine And History" (Obituaries). The Times (London). Monday, 26 February 1949. (51317), col E, p. 7.
External links
- Biography
- Sketch by Sir William Rothenstein
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