MEACHEN, George Norman was born on April 17, 1876. Son of George Buck Meachen, Bachelor of Arts, solicitor, of Beccles, Suffolk, and Isabella Mary, daughter of William Leedes Fox, solicitor, of Harleston, Deputy Provincial Grand Master of Freemasons, Norfolk.
Studied at private school. London University. Prizeman and Exhibitioner, Guy’s Hospital. Doctor of Medicine; Bachelor of Surgery London.
Member of Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 1901. Member of Royal College of Physicians of London, 1902. Chesterfield Silver Medallist in Dermatology, 1901.
Founder of Skin Department, Prince of Wales’s General Hospital. Senior Assistant in Skin Department, West London Hospital. Physician, Eastern Dispensary.
Joint Honourable Secretary Dermatological Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1906-1907. Fellow, and Member of Council of Dermatological Section, of the Royal Society of Medicine. Fellow of the Incorporated Institute of Hygiene. Physician for Skin Diseases, Prince of Wales’s General Hospital.
Cycling, music (Assoc. Mus. Trin. Coll. Lond.).
