Dr. Francis William Aston F. R. S

Dr. R. I. S. Gordon

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...

Dr. Francis Alexander Carron Scrimger.

helps. The November 11th ceremonies that occur all around the world challenge us to examine our present against the sacrifices and struggles of the past. My grandfather, Dr. Francis Alexander Carron Scrimger, served as a surgeon on the front lines in the 1st World War and received a Victoria Cross at the 2nd battle of Ypres. Throughout my growing up I always marvelled at this fact, even as I st...

The Late Dr. Francis Warner

The recent death of Dr. Warner in his eightieth year, is an event which must command the sympathy and regret of the readers of Mental Welfare. For many years past he had been retired from active work, but in the l'atter part of last century his name was one of the best known among those working in the field to which this journal is devoted. He was, indeed, a leader in the way in which he approa...

Dr. William Moodie

"The many generations of psychiatrists, psychologists and psychiatric social workers who passed through their training in child guidance under his directorship, have reason to remember his fatherly kindness and the steadfastness and good humour with which he watched over their professional development. He stood the brunt of the early days of struggle to win recognition for the value of child gu...