Burghard, Frédéric Francois

First name(s)

Frédéric Francois

Surname

Burghard

Position(s) held at King's College London

• Assistant Surgeon at King's College Hospital (1889-)
• Demonstrator of the Principles and Practice of Medicine (1889-)
• Teacher of Practical Surgery (1889-)
• Lecturer of Ambulance lectures [First Aid] in the King's College Ladies Department, 1896-[1899]
• Surgeon, King;s College Hospital (1898-) ^{Ref: *4}
• Fellow (1909)
• Consulting Surgeon and Emeritus Lecturer in Clinical Surgery (upon retirement in 1923) ^{Ref: *2}
• President, Clubs and Societies Union of King’s College Hospital Medical School (-1923) ^{Ref: *4}

Education & professional details

School, college and/or university attended

• Christ's College, Finchley
• Guy's Hospital

Qualifications

• MB BS First Class Honours in Forensic Medicine (1886) ^{Ref: *4}
• Treasurer’s Gold Medal (Guy’s) (1886) ^Ref:*1
• M.S, M.D State Medicine (1889) ^{Ref: *4}

Position(s) held (non King's College London)

• Colonel in the A.M.S. and Consulting Surgeon to the B.E.F. from 1914-16 ^{Ref: *2}
• Member of the Advisory Board of the Ait Ministry ^{Ref: *4}
• Member of the council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (1915-1923) ^{Ref: *2}
• Member of the Court of Examiners ^{Ref: *2}
• Senator of London University ^{Ref: *1}
• Examiner in Surgery at Cambridge and London University ^{Ref: *2}
• Consulting Surgeon to the Burton-on-Trent General Infirmary ^{Ref: *2}

Professional activities

• CB 1915
• MRCS 25 January 1886
• FRCS 14 March 1889
• MB BS London 1886
• MS 1887
• MD 1889
• Freemason ^{Ref: *3}

Publications

• A System of Operative Surgery (London, 1909)
• With Sir W W Cheyne, A Manual of Surgical Treatment (London, 1899-1903); 2nd ed with T P Legg and A Edmunds, 1912-13.
• Oxford Loose-Leaf Surgery, edited with A B Kanavel (New York: Oxford Press, 1918-20)
• Some memories of old King's, including reminiscences of Lister. Address to King's College Hospital Clubs Union, 1932.

Personal details

Date of birth

27 February 1864

Place of birth

Clapham

Date of death

31 October 1947

Place of death

Causewayside, Cambridge

Obituary

Br Med J 1947;2:797

Family details

Eldest of five sons of Frédéric Burghard, wine merchant, and his wife, née Boddy. ^{Ref: *2} Married to 1893 May Pollock (who died in 1919) and in 1923 Betty Atkins ^{Ref: *1}