Alfred Downing Fripp (surgeon)
British surgeon (1865–1930)
Sir Alfred Downing Fripp (12 September 1865 – 25 February 1930) was a British surgeon. He was Honorary Surgeon to His Majesty in the Medical Households of King Edward VII and King George V. He is also known for his contribution to the development of field hospitals during the Second Boer War.
Early life
Fripp was born in Blandford Forum, England in 1865 to the artist Alfred Downing Fripp and Eliza Bannister Roe. His father's first wife, Anne Dalton Allies, was a cousin of Canon John Neale Dalton, tutor to Prince Albert Victor and Prince George and godfather to Fripp. Anne died in 1850 after giving birth to Fripp's half-sister, Annie. Fripp had another sister, Jeanie (Edith Jane), and a brother, Rex (Reginald). Annie married Edward Penny, who became physician to Marlborough College. Rex, a pupil of the school, died aged eighteen in 1895; their parents died in the same bronchial epidemic. Jeanie had gained a 'Senior Optime' in mathematics at Girton College in 1886 and soon after married William Hale-White, son of Mark Rutherford. Hale-White, a physician, and Fripp, a surgeon, were to work at Guy's Hospital together for over thirty years.
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