Alfred Downing Fripp (surgeon)
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Guy's Hospital
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, London
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He was born in Dorset
Dorset
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, the son of the artist Alfred Downing Fripp
Alfred Downing Fripp (artist)
Alfred Downing Fripp was a British artist who specialised in watercolours of rural subjects. He was grandson of the artist Nicholas Pocock, a brother of the painter George Arthur Fripp, and father of the surgeon Sir Alfred Downing Fripp.Fripp studied at the Royal Academy of Arts...
. His godfather was royal tutor John Neale Dalton
John Neale Dalton
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. After studying at the Merchant Taylors' School
Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood
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in London, he took up medicine, and during the Boer War
Second Boer War
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he worked in South Africa as chief medical officer of the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital, Deelfontein
Deelfontein
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. He was knighted in 1903.
In 1897, Sir Alfred was appointed "Surgeon in Ordinary" to the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII of the United Kingdom
Edward VII of the United Kingdom
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, and performed the same service for his successor, King George V
George V of the United Kingdom
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. On his retirement in 1925, he had a house designed for him in Lulworth
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, Dorset
Dorset
Dorset , is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The county town is Dorchester which is situated in the south. The Hampshire towns of Bournemouth and Christchurch joined the county with the reorganisation of local government in 1974...
, by Sir Edwin Lutyens
Edwin Lutyens
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A grateful patient founded a drinking club called the Ancient Order of Froth Blowers in 1924 to raise money for charity work conducted by Sir Alfred; Fripp devoted much time after his retirement to promoting the organisation and dispensing the funds raised. He died, and is buried, in Lulworth.