Arthur Farre
Arthur Farre FRS (6 March 1811, in London – 17 December 1887, in London) was an English obstetric physician.
Life
Farre was born in London on 6 March 1811, to Dr. John Richard Farre. He was educated at
Harveian orator in 1872. Farre served as examiner in midwifery at the Royal College of Surgeons for twenty-four years (1852–1875). In 1875, he and two colleagues resigned their posts in protest of women being admitted to the college's examination in midwifery. They believed that women did not have adequate qualifications in medicine or surgery. Since no suitable successors were willing to be examiner, his effort was successful in the short term – though it encouraged parliamentary intervention, in the form of the Russell Gurney Act of 1876, which empowered licensing bodies to admit women for medical qualifications.[2]
Farre was a successful fashionable obstetrician: he attended the Princess of Wales and other members of the royal family, and was made physician extraordinary to
Sir Charles Locock
in 1875, Farre was elected honorary president of the Obstetrical Society of London, to which he gave a collection of pelves and gynæcological casts.
Farre died in London on 17 December 1887, and was buried at Kensal Green on 22 December. He left no children, and his wife died before him.
Works
His main contribution to medical literature was his article on ‘The Uterus and its Appendages,’ constituting parts 49 and 50 of
Philosophical Transactions, 1837), secured his election to the Royal Society
in 1839.
References
- ^ "Farre, Arthur (FR826A)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
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