Nationality United Kingdom Education Bedford Modern School Role Writer | Name William Hale-White Occupation physician Children William Hale-White | |
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Born 7 November 1857 ( 1857-11-07 ) London, England Died March 14, 1913, Groombridge, United Kingdom Books The revolution in Tanner, The Autobiography of Mark R, Clara Hopgood, Catherine Furze, Pages from a journal - with other | ||
Sir William Hale-White (7 November 1857 – 26 February 1949) was a distinguished British physician and medical biographer.
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He was the son of writer Mark Rutherford.
Career
Hale-White 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.
He was elected president of the Medical Society of London (1920-), the Royal Society of Medicine (1922–1924) and of the Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland (1930).
Retirement
Hale-White remained active in history of medicine following retirement. In this field, he is best known for his categorising of William Withering's letters, bequeathed by William Osler to the The History of Medicine Society at The Royal Society of Medicine, London. His literary contributions also include works on René Leannec andJohn Keats.
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. 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.