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Asset Name:
E004106 - Francis, Alfred George (1862 - 1940)
Title:
Francis, Alfred George (1862 - 1940)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E004106
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2013-06-19
Description:
Obituary for Francis, Alfred George (1862 - 1940), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Francis, Alfred George
Date of Birth:
25 November 1862
Place of Birth:
Southchurch, Essex
Date of Death:
13 October 1940
Place of Death:
Sussex
Titles/Qualifications:
OBE 1921

MRCS 23 October 1885

FRCS 12 June 1890

BA Cambridge 1887

MB London 1888

BS 1889

LSA 1885

FSA 1929
Details:
Born 25 November 1862 at The Wick, Southchurch, near Thorpe Bay, Essex, the seventh child and third son of Charles Wordley Francis, farmer, and Mary, his wife, daughter of George Belcham of Rayleigh, Essex. He was educated at Clewer House, Windsor, Worthing College, and University College School. He matriculated in 1885 at the University of Cambridge from King's College, where he was an exhibitioner 1886 and scholar 1887, and graduated after gaining first class honours in Parts 1 and 2 of the Natural Sciences Tripos. His medical education was received at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he filled the post of house surgeon after winning the gold medal and the scholarship in surgery at the London University BS examination. Settling in Hull he was appointed assistant surgeon to the Royal Infirmary on 11 February 1897, was promoted surgeon 9 May 1907, resigned in 1922, moved into London in December 1923, and retired to Hastings in April 1937. Whilst living in Hull he was president of the Hull Medical Society and of the East Riding and North Lincolnshire branch of the British Medical Association. He married on 14 April 1891 Frederica Jane Marcon, daughter of the Rev Walter Marcon. She survived him with two sons and two daughters. He died at 32 Park Drive, Hastings on 13 October 1940. Mrs Francis died on 3 March 1942. Francis did much good work as an archaeologist and was rewarded by his election as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. His chief papers were (1) On a shellmound at Southchurch, Essex, in the *Southend-on-Sea Antiquarian and Historical Society's Transactions* 1925; (2) On a causeway at the prehistoric settlement at Southchurch, Essex, *The Essex Naturalist* 1930; (3) On the subsidence of the Thames estuary since the Roman period, *Ibid*. 1931. He was also interested in the Cybele cult.
Sources:
Information given by his daughter, Frederica Gertrude Francis, MA
Rights:
Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Collection:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Format:
Obituary
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Asset Path:
Root/Lives of the Fellows/E004000-E004999/E004100-E004199
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Unknown