Frederick Hobday

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Sir Frederick Thomas George Hobday

Queen Alexandra from 1912 to 1939.[1]

He made major advances to animal anaesthesia and to small animal surgery. He also invented a series of thermometers, specific to different animal types.[2]

The term "to Hobday" a horse, is a treatment for recurrent laryngeal neuropathy in which the left side of the horse's larynx is weak or paralysed, reducing the ability to perform at high speeds and creating the characteristic noise of a "roarer". The Hobday procedure involves removal of the horse’s left vocal cord along with two adjacent pouches, to reduce turbulence and noise to improve deep breathing during racing. This stems from a practice created by Karl Adolf Gunther but refined by Hobday.[3]

Life

He was born on 4 November 1869 in

Burton Grammar School. He left school around 1883 and began working in his uncle’s coal merchant business but then decided to apprentice as a veterinary surgeon under Alfred Hodgkins in Hanley Staffordshire. He studied at the Royal Veterinary College 1888 to 1892.[4]

In 1903 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were James Cossar Ewart, Sir German Sims Woodhead, Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, and John Berry Haycraft.[5] In the

Mentioned in Dispatches.[2]

After the war he lived at 31 Argyll Road in Kensington, a pleasant Victorian terraced house. He was knighted in 1933 and received an honorary doctorate (DSc) from the

Royal Society of London
. He died in
Droitwich
on 24 June 1939.

Family

In 1895, he married Mrs Elizabeth Chambers, a widow of a fellow veteran. They had one son and one daughter.

Publications

  • Surgical Diseases of the Cat and Dog (1901)
  • Fifty Years a Veterinary Surgeon (1938)

References

  1. ^ "Obituary: Sir Frederick Hobday". The Times. 26 June 1939. p. 9.
  2. ^
    doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33901. Retrieved 1 November 2016. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  3. ^ The Language of Horseracing, by Gerald Hammond
  4. ^ "AIM25 text-only browsing: Royal Veterinary College: HOBDAY, Sir Frederick Thomas George (1870-1939)". aim25.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 November 2016.
  5. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 1 November 2016.
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