Walter Robert HADWEN

Background

HADWEN, Walter Robert was born on August 3, 1854 in Woolwich. Son of late W. R. Had wen, Burnham, Somerset.

Education

Studied at private school. Bristol University College. Saint Bartholomew’s Hospital.

First Prizeman in Physiology, Operative Surgery, Pathology, and Forensic Medicine.

Clarke Scholar; Suple Prizeman and double Gold Medallist in Surgery and Medicine. Honourable; Doctor of Medicine (Saint Andrews).

Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians (London). Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries (London).

Career

Life Member and Lecturer Saint John's Ambulance Association. Member of Gloucester School Board, 1897-1902. Councillor of the City of Gloucester, 1898-1904.

President British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection.

Engaged for some years in the public advocacy of the repeal I of the Vaccination Acts, abolition of vivisection, and in the prosecution of reform movements connected with temperance, food, hygiene, sanitation, education, and burial laws.

Membership

Member Royal College of Surgeons (England). Club: National Liberal.

Interests

• Change ?of occupation, lecturing, cycling.

Connections

Spouse 1878, Alice Caroline Mackenzie, daughter of late Francis Blagdon Harral, Doctor of Medicine

Father:

West. R. Had

Spouse:

Alice Caroline Mackenzie