Resource Name:
Resource Type:
External Resource
Asset Name:
E004560 - Martin, Frank Beauchamp (1884 - 1943)
Title:
Martin, Frank Beauchamp (1884 - 1943)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E004560
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2013-10-30
Subject:
Description:
Obituary for Martin, Frank Beauchamp (1884 - 1943), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Martin, Frank Beauchamp
Date of Birth:
11 August 1884
Place of Birth:
Horsham, Victoria, Australia
Date of Death:
26 December 1943
Place of Death:
Watford
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS and FRCS 13 February 1919
MB BS Melbourne 1908
Details:
Born at Horsham, Victoria, Australia on 11 August 1884, son of Frederick Martin, newspaper proprietor, and Alice Wood, his wife. He was educated at Haileybury and at Wesley College, Melbourne, and graduated in medicine at the University of Melbourne. He served the posts of junior resident medical officer, casualty surgeon, resident anaesthetist, and finally medical superintendent of the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne; and also served as demonstrator and lecturer in anatomy at the University. Martin went to England for further study at the Middlesex and St Bartholomew's Hospitals before the first great war. When it broke out he joined the RAMC and was seconded for service with the French army, with which he served as a surgeon for eighteen months. Rejoining the RAMC, he saw active service in France and the Balkans, till he was invalided to England at the end of 1916, having been promoted captain on 19 July 1916, and served in military hospitals. He was subsequently commissioned major in the Australian Army Medical Corps. He took the Fellowship early in 1919 though not previously a Member of the College, and returning to Australia in 1920 settled in practice at Hobart, Tasmania. In 1924 he came back to England and began to practise at Watford, where he was appointed surgeon to the Peace Memorial Hospital in 1933. He practised at Milfleur, 52 Clarendon Road, Watford, and died in the Peace Memorial Hospital on 26 December 1943, survived by his wife and an adopted daughter.
Sources:
*The Times*, 30 December 1943, p lb no memoir
Information given by his brother Mr Justice Russell Martin of Melbourne, through Miss Nance C Andrew, librarian, Gordon Craig Library, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, by J W C Leech MD of Watford, and by H M Maskell FCCS administrator of the Watford and District Peace Memorial Hospital
Rights:
Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Collection:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Format:
Obituary
Format:
Asset
Asset Path:
Root/Lives of the Fellows/E004000-E004999/E004500-E004599
Media Type:
Unknown
