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E004010 - Edge, Frederick (1863 - 1937)
Title:
Edge, Frederick (1863 - 1937)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E004010
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2013-05-21
Description:
Obituary for Edge, Frederick (1863 - 1937), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Edge, Frederick
Date of Birth:
3 August 1863
Place of Birth:
Goos Vladimir, Russia
Date of Death:
17 May 1937
Place of Death:
Wolverhampton
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS 22 October 1885

FRCS 13 June 1889

BSc London 1884

BS 1886

MD 1890

LRCP 1886

MRCP 1924
Details:
Born 3 August 1863 at Goos Vladimir, Russia, the sixth child and fifth son of William Edge, engineer, and his wife, née Pollitt. He was educated at Bolton Grammar School and at Owens College, Manchester. He then proceeded to St Thomas's Hospital and afterwards took postgraduate courses at Munich and Vienna. He settled at Wolverhampton in 1891 and was appointed surgeon to the Women's Hospital. He later moved to Edgbaston and from 1897 until 1933 he was surgeon to the Birmingham and Midland Hospital for Women. He was also surgeon for some years to the Birmingham Maternity Hospital and was an examiner at the Central Midwives Board. He served as president of the Staffordshire branch of the British Medical Association, president of the Midland Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society, and president of the Midland Medical Society. He was active in the public life of Wolverhampton where he was a member of the Town Council from 1897 to 1904. He married on 16 April 1902 Florence Gertrude Bradley, who survived him with two sons and a daughter. He died 17 May 1937 at Tettenhall, Wolverhampton, having left Edgbaston, where he had lived and practised for many years, a few months previously. Mrs Edge died on 3 June 1946; their younger son, Major I W B Edge, RE, who had served as a railway engineer in Palestine and Egypt, died on active service early in 1941 (*The Times*, 21 March 1941). Edge was a highly cultivated man with a gift for languages. He took an active part in the development of the Women's Hospital at Wolverhampton, which he found established in a private house and left in large premises overlooking the West Park. It was largely due to his influence that the amalgamation of the Royal Hospital with the Women's Hospital at Wolverhampton was brought about without the least friction. Publications:- Acute retroflexion of the fundus of the uterus after bicycling. *Brit med J*. 1903, 1, 963. The repair of chronic complete rupture of the female perinaeum. *Bgham med Rev*. 1905, 58, 559. Translation, with John W Taylor, of A Dührssen, *A manual of gynaecological practice*, London, 1895, and *A manual of obstetric practice*, London, 1897.
Sources:
*Brit med J*. 1937, 1, 1141

*Lancet*, 1937, 1, 1311

*Bgham med Rev*. 1937, 12, 92

Information given by S W Maslen-Jones, FRCS, at the request of Mrs Florence Edge
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Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Collection:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
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Obituary
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Root/Lives of the Fellows/E004000-E004999/E004000-E004099
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