James Cantlie
Sir James Cantlie
Life
Cantlie was born in
In 1877, Cantlie became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and Assistant Surgeon to Charing Cross Hospital.
In 1883, Cantlie and eleven other civilian doctors and six army regulars volunteered to serve in Egypt. Before going to Egypt, Cantlie was engaged to Mabel Barclay Brown (died 1921). Brown's father also volunteered with the London Scottish. They got married in 1884 and had four sons.[1]
In 1886 he became Surgeon at Charing Cross. In 1888, he resigned to take up a position in
In 1896, poor health – related to his unstinting work as a researcher and practicing physician – forced Cantlie to return to London. Later that year, Dr Sun visited him, and was kidnapped by the
Sun was tied up in the Chinese Legation, and might well have been shipped back to China and executed had it not been for Cantlie, who led a media campaign which not only succeeded in releasing Dr Sun, but made him a hero in Britain.[3]
Cantlie was involved in the setting up of the Journal of Tropical Medicine in 1898, and the founding of the
On his death, he was buried in St John the Baptist church, located in Cottered, Herts.
He is the father of Lieutenant Colonel Kenneth Cantlie,[4] and Sir Neil Cantlie,[1] as well as great-grandfather of John Cantlie.[3]
See also
References
- ^ doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/50530. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ Gray's Inn Place, Sun Yat-sen And A London Kidnapping, alondoninheritance.com. Accessed 28 January 2023.
- ^ a b McGill, Peter McGill (2 November 2014). "Kidnapped British journalist's link to China's founding father". South China Morining Post. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
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- Choa, G. H. (2000) The Life and Times of Sir Kai Ho, Chinese University Press, ISBN 962-201-873-4
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