Resource Name:
Resource Type:
External Resource
Asset Name:
E004898 - Belben, Frank (1869 - 1955)
Title:
Belben, Frank (1869 - 1955)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E004898
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2014-01-22
Subject:
Description:
Obituary for Belben, Frank (1869 - 1955), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Belben, Frank
Date of Birth:
16 April 1869
Place of Birth:
Parkstone, Dorset
Date of Death:
13 November 1955
Place of Death:
Poole, Dorset
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
OBE 1920
MRCS 11 May 1893
FRCS 14 June 1894
BA Cambridge 1888
MB BCh 1891
MA 1892
LRCP 1893
Details:
Born at Parkstone, Dorset, 16 April 1869, son of Thomas Belben, he was educated at Haileybury College and at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he took third-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part I, 1888. He qualified in 1891, and served as house surgeon, house physician, and resident midwifery assistant at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He was also house physician at the West London Hospital, and senior house surgeon at the Royal Infirmary, Hull.
Belben practised throughout his career as a consulting surgeon at Bournemouth and was surgeon to the Royal Victoria and West Hants Hospital. He was also consulting surgeon at Milford-on-Sea and Lymington Hospitals. During the war of 1914-18 he was honorary surgeon to the military hospitals at Bournemouth, and was created OBE for his services. He retired to Parkstone, Dorset, and died at Poole on 13 November 1955, aged 86.
Sources:
Venn, *Alumni Cantabrigienses*, part 2, v 1, p 217
*The Times* 16 November 1955, without memoir
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/E004800-E004899
Media Type:
Unknown
