Sir Frederic Truby KING CMG Kt MB CM Hons (Edin), BSc (Edin)
Born Taranaki 1.04.1858 Died Wellington 10.02.1938 MB CM Hons (Edin) 1886, BSc (Edin) 1888 (in public health) RSO & RMO, Edinburgh & Glasgow Royal Infirmaries 1887 Resident Surgeon, Wellington Hospital 1888-89 Medical Superintendent, Seacliff Lunatic Asylum 1889 - 1920 Founder of the Society for the promotion of the Health of Women and Children (Plunket Society) 1907 Director of Child Welfare 1921-24 Acting Inspector of Mental Defectives 1924 Knighted 1925 Click the image to view detail in a larger version.
Obituary: NZMJ 1938 37:94 / Medical Journal of Australia 1938 1:547 / Lancet 1938 1:465, 1:855	photograph courtesy J O Mercer collection

Sir Frederic Truby KING CMG Kt
MB CM Hons (Edin), BSc (Edin)

Born Taranaki 1.04.1858 Died Wellington 10.02.1938

MB CM Hons (Edin) 1886, BSc (Edin) 1888 (in public health)

RSO & RMO, Edinburgh & Glasgow Royal Infirmaries 1887

Resident Surgeon, Wellington Hospital 1888-89
Medical Superintendent, Seacliff Lunatic Asylum 1889 - 1920

Founder of the Society for the promotion of the Health of Women and Children (Plunket Society) 1907
Director of Child Welfare 1921-24
Acting Inspector of Mental Defectives 1924
Knighted 1925

Click the image to view detail in a larger version.

Obituary: NZMJ 1938 37:94 / Medical Journal of Australia 1938 1:547 / Lancet 1938 1:465, 1:855

photograph courtesy
J O Mercer collection