Photographs of Roy Frew Young (1879-1948)

Photographs c.1914-1942

Roy Frew Young was born in 1879 and educated at Glasgow Academy, Sedberg, Christ’s College, Cambridge and Glasgow University. After graduating in arts and medicine at Cambridge, he held resident posts with Sir George Beatson at the Western Infirmary and with Dr J.B. Mackenzie Anderson at the Royal Infirmary. He then studied in London and Paris and on his return to Glasgow in 1909 he was appointed to the Junior Surgical staff of the Western Infirmary. He joined the Royal Army Medical Corps as the outbreak of the First World War and served in France thoughout the war, being awarded the Military Cross and was twice mentioned in dispatches. He returned to Glasgow in 1919 and was shortly appointed Assistant Surgeon to the Western Infirmary. For many years he was Surgeon to the Royal Alexandra Infirmary, Paisley, until, in 1924, he was appointed Visiting Surgeon to the Western Infirmary, a post he held until 1944. For many years he was Consulting Surgeon to the Henry Brock Hospital, Alexandria. He was awarded the honorary degree of L.L.D. in 1947 by the University of Glasgow.

Roy Frew Young served on the Council of the Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons for eleven years and was President from 1940-1942.

Obituary: Glasgow Medical Journal, Vol 29, 1948, p180, 289.

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