Willans, Sir Frederic Jeune

  • Willans, Sir Frederic Jeune, 1884-1949.
Date:
1914-1948
Reference:
GP/34
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Description

19 practice day books, covering 1918-1948.

Publication/Creation

1914-1948

Physical description

19 volumes

Arrangement

In two series, of 16 and of 3, each in chronological order.

Biographical note

Sir Frederic Jeune Willans KCVO, MRCS, LRCP (1884-1949) was a general practitioner in Sandringham, Norfolk.

After university at Durham he studied medicine at Newcastle and London Hospitals gaining MRCS and LRCP in 1910. He served in France during the First World War. From 1924 until 1945 he was Surgeon-Apothecary to HM Household at Sandringham. He was knighted in 1933. During this time he was the first signatory to the bulletins announcing the illness of King George V and his death on 21 January 1936. He was also Surgeon-Apothecary to Queen Alexandra and was in attendance at the time of her death on 20 November 1925.

He died in 1949.

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Accession number

  • 732