King, F Truby

Born Taranaki 1 Apr 1858 Died Wellington 10 Feb 1938
F Truby King
RSO & RMO, Edinburgh & Glasgow Royal Infirmaries 1887
Resident Surgeon, Wellington Hospital 1888 – 89
Medical Superintendent, Seacliff Lunatic Asylum 1889 – 1920
Founder of the Society for the promotion of the Health of Women and Children (Plunket Society) 1907
Director of Child Welfare, 1921 – 24
Acting Inspector of Mental Defectives, 1924
Knighted 1925

Obituary: NZMJ 1938 37:94
Medical Journal of Australia 1938 1:547
The Lancet 1: 465 and 1:855

photograph courtesy J O Mercer collection