Francis Richard Fraser

Sir Francis Richard Fraser was born in Edinburgh in 1885. He studied at Christ's College, Cambridge, and graduated MD from the University of Edinburgh in 1922. Fraser served as a military physician during the First World War and was appointed Professor of Medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1920. He later became Professor of Medicine at the British Postgraduate Medical School at Hammersmith and served as Director General of the Emergency Medical Service during the Second World War. He was appointed Director of the British Postgraduate Medical Federation in 1946 and died in London in 1964.