Background
Fagge was the son of Charles Fagge, a medical practitioner, and nephew of John Hilton. He was born in Hythe, Kent on 30 June 1838.
Fagge was the son of Charles Fagge, a medical practitioner, and nephew of John Hilton. He was born in Hythe, Kent on 30 June 1838.
In 1863 he graduated Doctor of Medicine, in 1864 became a member, and in 1870 a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.
Fagge entered Guy"s Hospital medical school in October 1856, and in 1859, at the first Bachelor of Medicine examination at the university of London, gained three scholarships and gold medals. In 1861, at the final Bachelor of Medicine examination, he gained scholarships and gold medals for medicine and for physiology, and a gold medal for surgery. After being demonstrator of anatomy from 1862 to 1866, Fagge became medical registrar of Guy"s in 1866, assistant physician in 1867, and physician in 1880.
He was for some years demonstrator of morbid anatomy, lecturer on pathology, and curator of the museum at Guy"son
He for some years edited the Guy"s Hospital Reports, and at the time of his death was examiner in medicine to the university of London. Foreign about a year and a half he had suffered from aneurysm of the aorta, but he continued to work on his treatise on medicine, which had occupied him for twelve years or more.
He had been occupied on the last day of his life in reading examination papers, when he was seized with difficulty of breathing, and died in half an hour on 18 November 1883, at his house in Grosvenor Street, in his forty-sixth year. He was buried at West Norwood Cemetery and a bronze memorial tablet erected in the museum of Guy"s Hospital.