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Name: WRIGHT, Frederick James (Dr.)
Birth Date: 23 Mar 1906 Forest Gate, London
Death Date: 14 June 1996 Edinburgh
First Date: 1936
Profession: Medical Officer, Medical Dept., Kenya in 1939, appointed 1936. Specialist in 1953.
Area: Nairobi
Married: 1. In Nairobi 23 Dec 1936 Ruth Cassé, nurse, b. 27 Apr 1909 Birkenhead, d. 20 Apr 1966 Edinburgh; 2. In Moshi 24 Mar 1973 Gerda Rossen b. 18 Mar 1937 Kolding, Denmark, d. 14 Sep 2019 Edinburgh
Children: Jonathan Richard (1942); Margaret Cassé (1938); Caroline Joy Cassé (1945)
Book Reference: Staff 39, Staff 53, Colonial
School: Coopers Co's Sch. Lond., Sidney Sussex Coll. Cambridge, Lond. Hosp.; MA, MD (Cantab), MRCS (Eng), LRCP (Lond)
General Information:
Colonial - Med. Spec. 1947
Career: House Phys. & Surg. Out-Patient Clinical Asst., Aural House Surg. & Receiving Room Officer, London Hospital (c. 1930-36); MO Kenya (1936-47); Medical Specialist Kenya (1947-53); Senior Lecturer Edinburgh University (1953-4); Consultant in Tropical Medicine Edinburgh (1954-72); Physician i/c Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre Tanzania
Blue Book 1938 appt. 23.1.1936
1939 England and Wales Register living in Dehryn, Lleyn, with wife , in 'colonial medical service'