Biography winfred t grenfell

          Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell KCMG was a British medical missionary to Newfoundland, who wrote books on his work and other topics.

        1. Sir Wilfred Grenfell was an English medical missionary who was the tireless benefactor of the people of Labrador.
        2. Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell KCMG (28 February – 9 October ) was a British medical missionary to Newfoundland, who wrote books on his work and other.
        3. Settler Society in the English Leeward Islands, – is the first study of the history of the federated colony of the Leeward Islands - Antigua.
        4. Winfred T. Grenfell, Dr. E. B. Hoag,.

          5. Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell KCMG (28 February – 9 October ) was a British medical missionary to Newfoundland, who wrote books on his work and other....

          GRENFELL, Sir WILFRED THOMASON, physician, medical missionary, social reformer, and author; b. 28 Feb.

          in Parkgate, near Neston, England, second son of Algernon Sidney Grenfell and Jane Georgiana Hutchinson; m. 18 Nov. Anna Elizabeth Caldwell MacClanahan in Chicago, and they had two sons and a daughter; d. 9 Oct.  in Charlotte, Vt.

          Behind the Dr Charles S. Curtis Memorial Hospital at St Anthony, Nfld, stands a rock face bearing six brass tablets.

          One locates the ashes of Sir Wilfred Grenfell, the British physician whose extraordinary accomplishments in Newfoundland and Labrador embraced the building of hospitals, orphanages, schools, and small industries where none had existed before.

          The tablet registers Grenfell’s life without any conventional Christian iconography or sentimental language, giving only a name, a date, and an inscription, “Life is a Field of Honour.” Grenfell was one of the last of the spiritual a