SIR FRANCIS FRASER

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Sir Ian Fraser 1901-1999

Ian Fraser died at his residence, 19 Upper Malone Road, on 11th May in his ninety-ninth year. He had been a significant force in Ulster surgery, indeed the entire Ulster medical scene, almost from his appointment as an 'honorary attending surgeon in charge ofthe out-patient department' at the then Belfast Hospital for Sick Children (in Queen Street) in 1927 until late in life; and he was to rec...

Sir Bruce Fraser on "The doctor and the administrator".

Call for Foundation of a Sir Francis Drake Society

It’s high time to establish a ‘Sir Francis Drake Society’. A contemporary of Claude Garamond, Sir Francis Drake lived from 1540 to 1596. He already has many devoted followers and admirers in the graphics industry. Large software companies and type designers in the digital era will welcome Sir Francis Drake as their patron. In 1581 Queen Elizabeth knighted him for his achievements and later he w...

Sir Francis Crane Kt. and Dr. William Davison; patient and doctor in Paris in 1636.

THIS DUAL biographical essay concerns two outstanding men of the seventeenth century, an Englishman and a Scotsman. They made their reputations in very different walks of life and in different countries. Both were proteges of royalty; Sir Francis Crane of James I and Charles I, and William Davison of Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria, as well as of the kings of France and Poland, to whom he w...