1. Anthony Bowlby was born in Namur, Belgium, the third son of Thomas William Bowlby and Frances Marion Bowlby nee Mein, the daughter of an army surgeon.
10 Facts About Anthony Bowlby
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Anthony Bowlby was educated at Durham School and St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, qualifying as a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1879.
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Anthony Bowlby was Surgeon to King Edward VII's Household between 1904 and 1910 and Honorary Surgeon-in-Ordinary to King George V in 1910.
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Anthony Bowlby served in France in the First World War as Consulting Surgeon to the Forces, with the rank of Major-General, Army Medical Services and towards the end of the war became Adviser on Surgery for the whole of the British area, Front and Base.
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Anthony Bowlby served as a Councillor of the Royal College of Surgeons of England from 1904 until 1920, when he became President for three years.
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Anthony Bowlby delivered the Bradshaw Lecture in 1915 on the subject of "Wounds in War" and gave the Hunterian Oration in 1919.
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Anthony Bowlby had been made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1911.
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Anthony Bowlby died on holiday at Stoney Cross, Lyndhurst, on 7 April 1929, was cremated at Brookwood, and buried at Brooklands Cemetery.
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Anthony Bowlby was succeeded as Baronet by his eldest son, Anthony Hugh Mostyn Bowlby.
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Anthony Bowlby was created 1st Baronet Bowlby, of Manchester Square, Borough of St Marylebone [UK] on 17 July 1923.