Sydney Henning Belfrage
Born21 July 1871
Died31 May 1950 (1950-06-01) (aged 78)
Occupation(s)Physician, writer
ChildrenCedric Belfrage, Bruce Belfrage, Douglas Henning Belfrage
RelativesNicolas Belfrage (grandson)
Julian Rochfort Belfrage (grandson)
Sally Belfrage (granddaughter)
Ixta Belfrage (great granddaughter)
Beatriz Belfrage (great granddaughter)

Sydney Henning Belfrage (21 July 1871 - 31 May 1950) M.D., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., was a British physician and writer.[1] He established a sizable general practice, served as the Divorce Registry's medical inspector, and was regarded as an authority on the law of nullity.[1]

Life

Belfrage was born on 21 July 1871 in Lambeth.[2][3] He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, University College Hospital and St Thomas' Hospital.[3] He obtained his M.D. in 1900.[2]

Belfrage married Frances Grace Powley on 7 September 1899 at Purley, London.[3][4] He was a member of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons, a leading member of the New Health Society and physician to Virginia Woolf.[2][5][6] He authored the book What's Best to Eat? which was dedicated to Sir William Arbuthnot Lane.[7]

Selected publications

References

  1. 1 2 Obituary in The Times, DR S. H. BELFRAGE, June 1, 1950, p.9
  2. 1 2 3 Merchant Taylors' School Register, 1851-1920. Merchant's Taylors' Company, 1923. p. 160
  3. 1 2 3 Who Was Who: A Companion to Who's Who. A. & C. Black, 1967. p. 82
  4. http://project-purley.net/R200275.pdf, p.57
  5. Neswald, Elizabeth; Smith, David F; Thoms, Ulrike. (2017). Setting Nutritional Standards: Theory, Policies, Practices. University of Rochester Press. p. 142. ISBN 978-1-58046-576-2
  6. Licence, Amy (15 May 2015). Living in Squares, Loving in Triangles: The Lives and Loves of Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group. Amberley Publishing Limited. ISBN 9781445645797 via Google Books.
  7. 1 2 "Notes On Books". The British Medical Journal. 1 (3443): 20. 1927. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.3443.20. S2CID 220001110.
  8. Wood, Betha M. (1927). "What's Best to Eat by S. Henning Belfrage". The American Journal of Nursing. 27 (8): 701–702.
  9. BELFRAGE, Sydney Henning (3 July 1929). The A.B.C. of Food. Faber & Faber. OCLC 557799188 via Open WorldCat.
  10. Belfrage, Sydney Henning (3 July 1938). Facts about food. Oxford Univ. Press. OCLC 3266926 via Open WorldCat.
  11. "Illness: Its Story and Some Common Symptoms, a Guide for the Layman". The New England Journal of Medicine. 218: 1124. 1938.
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