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Emeritus Consultants Biographies
Fredrick Hadley was born in Kensington, England in 1873, the son of a Barrister and QC. He graduated in medicine in 1899 and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1905. He was a Foundation Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Surgeons. He excelled at sport and played rugby for his college, rowed for his hospital and represented The West of England at tennis. In 1891 he was awarded the Life Saving Medal. In 1891 he went to the Boer War with the Imperial Yeomenary and then was sent to West Africa to suppress tribal fighting. During the first World War he was Colonel of No 5 General Base Hospital at Fremantle. He worked at the Sheffield General Hospital as a Surgeon and then in 1905 he moved to the Throat Hospital in Gordon Square. In 1912 he came to Western Australia and took over Dr Newton's practice. He was the only doctor at the time who practiced only as a surgeon. He was an Honorary Surgeon to the Perth Public Hospital as it was then and senior surgeon after William Trethowne. He was one of the first surgeons to repair defects of the skull by bone grafting. After his retirement he ran sheep at Riverdale on the Franklin River. The Hadley Bequest continues to provide travel scholar-ships for young doctors. Frederick Hadley died in 1960. |
