The only son of George M Frean. He received his medical training at the University of Cambridge and at the London Hospital; was Surgical Clinical Assistant at the Evelina Hospital, and settled in Oxford (29 Beaumont Street). He was at one time Senior Clinical Assistant to the Oxford Eye Hospital, and School Oculist to the Berks County Council and Oxford City. He served as eye specialist during the War (1914-1918), retiring with the rank of Temporary Captain RAMC. His first service was in Egypt, where he was taken ill. Recovering, he again went out, first to Salonika and then to the Caucasus. Resuming work at Oxford after demobilization, he found his health permanently undermined. Steadily growing worse, he was compelled to give up his appointments, and spent two winters in Switzerland. During the last few months of his life he failed rapidly, and died at Branksome, Bournemouth, on June 18th, 1922. Publication: "Case of Aneurysm in a Woman." - *Brit. Med. Jour.*, 1910, I, 318.