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Name: OWEN, Hugh Brindley (Dr.)
Birth Date: 17 Feb 1878 Lampeter
Death Date: 17 Jan 1941 Penzance
First Date: 1903
Profession: Medical officer
Area: Mombasa, Entebbe
Married: Olive b. 1894
Children: Barbara Mary (1924)
Book Reference: Red 25, Red 22, Gazette, North
War Service: RE, RW Fus., EAf forces
School: Lampeter Sch., Llandovery Coll., Caius Coll. Cambridge
General Information:
Gazette 1/10/1908 - Arrived on 1st Appointment - Medical Officer - 23/9/1908
Based at Entebbe 1908
Cambridge Univ. Alumni: at CAIUS, Oct. 1, 1897. S. of Hugh, bank-manager, of Bala, N. Wales. B. Feb. 17, 1878, at Lampeter. School, Llandovery College. Matric. Michs. 1897; B.Chir. 1906; M.B. 1908. D.T.M. and H. 1908. Served in the S. African War, 1900-1 (University Volunteer Corps). At St Bartholomew's Hospital. Assistant Resident Medical Officer, London Temperance Hospital. Clinical Assistant, St Luke's Hospital for the insane and Royal Eye Hospital. Medical Officer, Uganda Protectorate, 1910. Served in the Great War, 1914-19 (Capt. and Major, E. African Forces; D.S.O., 1918). Assistant Director of Medical Services, 1926; Medical Superintendent and Principal of Medical School, Mulago Hospital, Uganda, 1930. Ophthalmic Specialist, Uganda Medical Service. Latterly practised at Penzance. Ophthalmic Surgeon, West Cornwall Hospital, Penzance, and West Cornwall Miners' and Women's Hospital, Redruth. M.B.E., 1932. Author, medical. Died Jan. 17, 1941, at Penzance. Brother of Albert H. (1899). (Venn, II. 553 and addenda; Univ. War List; Medical Directories; The V.C. and D.S.O.)
1939 England and Wales Register as opthalmic surgeon in Penzance - no wife with him, but she is in the Nat Probate Register announcing his death so must still have been alive.