Wilfred Grenfell
Physician, Author
1865 – 1940
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Who was Wilfred Grenfell?
Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, KCMG was a medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador.
He was born at Parkgate, Wirral, England, the son of Rev. Algernon Sidney Grenfell, headmaster of Mostyn House School, and Jane Georgiana Hutchison and married Anne Elizabeth Caldwell MacClanahan of Chicago, Illinois, in 1909. She died in 1938. They had three children and retired to Vermont after his work in Newfoundland.
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- Born
- Feb 28, 1865
Parkgate - Also known as
- Sir Wilfred Grenfell
- Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
- Dr. Wilfred Grenfell
- Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
- Wilfred T Grenfell
- Nationality
- Canada
- Profession
- Education
- Barts and The London, Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry
- Lived in
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Died
- Oct 9, 1940
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on July 23, 2013
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