Dr Fredan Glyn Etheridge

Personal Details

Dr Fredan Glyn Etheridge BA BM BCh FFARCS DA

15/12/1912 - 03/04/1989

Place of birth: Blean, Kent, England 

Nationality: British 

CRN: 723647

Other family names: born Ethiraj, changed to Etheridge in 1944

 

General education	Medical School at University of Oxford and King’s College Hospital 1931-38.
Primary medical qualification(s)	BM BCh, University of Oxford, 1938
Initial Fellowship and type	FFARCS by Election
Year of Fellowship	1953
Other qualification(s)	BA, University of Oxford, 1938 DA (RCP&S), 1939

 

Professional life and career

Postgraduate career

After graduation Etheridge undertook house jobs at King’s College Hospital, London, followed by resident anaesthetist at S.Hants & Southampton Hospital and the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading. In 1940 he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps as a Lt. Through 1943-46 he served as an anaesthetist at the E.M.S. Botley’s Park War Hospital in Chertsey, Surrey. After demobilisation in 1946 he was Senior Anaesthetist at St Peter’s Hospital, Chertsey. By 1948 he was also Honorary Anaesthetist to Putney Hospital, Surbiton Hospital and Queen Mary’s Hospital, Stratford. In 1949 he was appointed Consultant Anaesthetist at Botley’s Park Hospital. In the 1950s his job title changed to Senior Anaesthetist in the Woking and Chertsey Hospitals Group; in the 1970s this became the N.W. Surrey Hospitals Group. He retired in 1978.  

Professional interests and activities

He was a member of the Royal Society of Medicine and of the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain & Ireland. Early in his career he published three papers: one on chest complications in gastric surgery, and two on anaesthetic equipment. 

Other biographical information

He married Monica Bird in 1945. He died at the age of 76 years.  

Author and Sources

Author

Alistair McKenzie

 

Sources and Comments For material which does not fit other categories

[1] Medical Registers and Directories. 

[2] ancestry .co.uk 

[3] Deed Poll, London Gazette 2 June 1944.