John Alexander Fraser Roberts
John Alexander Fraser Roberts
(8 September 1899 – 15 January 1987) was a Welsh geneticist and psychiatrist during the 20th-century.Life
He was born on 8 September 1899 at
He then won a place at the University of Edinburgh as a postgraduate first gaining a doctorate (DSc) in 1933 then studying medicine and graduated with a MB ChB in 1936.
In 1926, aged 26, he was elected a Fellow of the
In the
After the war he returned to the Stoke Park Colony as Director of the Burden Mental Research Department, staying there until 1957. In 1964 he was appointed Geneticist at the Paediatric Research Unit of Guy's Hospital Medical School in London. From 1957 to 1959 he was President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.
He retired in 1981 and died on 15 January 1987.
Family
In 1941, he married Welsh actress Doris Hare and they were married 32 years until their divorce in 1973. The marriage produced two daughters. After divorcing, he married Margaret Ralph in 1975.
Publications
- An Introduction to Medical Genetics (1940) with later editions
References
- ^ "LLGC-NLW".
- ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original(PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
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