Background
Grenfell, Sir Wilfred Thomason was born on February 28, 1865 in Mostyn House, Parkgate, near Chester, England. Son of Algernon Sydney and Jane Georgiana (Hutchinson) Grenfell.
Grenfell, Sir Wilfred Thomason was born on February 28, 1865 in Mostyn House, Parkgate, near Chester, England. Son of Algernon Sydney and Jane Georgiana (Hutchinson) Grenfell.
Educated Marlborough College, University of Oxford and London Hospital. Honorary Doctor of Laws, Williams College, 1909. Honorary Master of Arts, Harvard, 1909.
Honorary Doctor of Medicine Toronto U., 1911. Doctor of Humane Letters, University of New York, 1928. Doctor of Laws, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 1928, Middlebury College, Vermont, 1928, Princeton University, Bowdoin, St. Andrews, 1929, Berea College, Kentucky, 1930.
Distinguished Service Cross, University of Louisville, 1933.
Died 1938) children—Wilfred Thomason, Kinloch Pascoe, Rosamond Loveday. House surgeon London Hospital, 1890-1891. Entered medical service of Royal National Mission to Fishermen, 1889.
Fitted out first hospital ship for North Sea fisheries. Cruised with fishermen, established houses and mission vessels for them. Went to Labrador, 1892, and has built 5 hospitals, 7 nursing stations, 2 orphanages, 2 large schools, cooperative stores, and inaugurated industrial work and child welfare work.
Surgeon in charge hospital steamer, Strathcona II, of which is master, and cruises each year on coasts of northern Newfoundland and Labrador. Owns and operates S.S. Maraval, S.S. Zavorah, M.V. Jessie Goldthwait, M.-V. George B. Cluett, and yawls in connection with hospitals F.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., London. Fellow American College Surgeons, 1915, Royal College Surgeons, 1920.
Member Royal Institution of Great Britain. Awarded Murchison Bequest, Royal Geography Society, 1911. Gold medal National Academy Social Sciences (United States), 1920.
Livingston gold medal Royal Scottish Geography Society, 1930. Lord rector St. Andrews U., 1929-1931. Honorary fellow of Queen’s College, Oxford, England, 1936.
Author: Harvest of the Sea. A Man’s Faith, 1908
Labrador, 1909. Adrift on an Ice-Pan, 1909.
Down to the Sea, 1910. What Life Means to Me, 1910. What the Church Means to Me, 1911.
Down North on the Labrador, 1911. The Adventure of Life, 1912. Tales of the Labrador, 1916.
Labrador Days, 1919
A Labrador Doctor (autobiography). Northern Neighbors, 1923. Yourself and Your Body, 1925.
Labrador Looks at the Orient, 1928. Forty Years for Labrador, 1932. The Romance of Labrador, 1934.
Member Royal Institution of Great Britain. Served as major Harvard Surgical Unit in France, World War.
Married Anne MacClanahan, 1909.