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Sydney Henning Belfrage (21 July 1871 - 31 May 1950) M.D., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. was a British physician and writer.[1] As well as building a large general practice, he was Medical Inspector of the Divorce Registry and considered an expert on the law of nullity.[1]

Sydney Henning Belfrage
Born	21 July 1871 Lambeth, London
Died	31 May 1950 (1950-06-01) (aged 78) Penn, Buckinghamshire
Occupation	Physician, writer
Children	Cedric Belfrage, Bruce Belfrage, Douglas Henning Belfrage
Relatives	Nicolas Belfrage (grandson) Julian Rochfort Belfrage (grandson) Sally Belfrage (granddaughter) Ixta Belfrage (great granddaughter) Beatriz Belfrage (great granddaughter)

Life

Belfrage was born on 21 July 1871 in Lambeth.[2][3] He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, University College Hospital and St Thomas' Hospital.[3] He obtained his M.D. in 1900.[2]

Belfrage married Frances Grace Powley on 7 September 1899 at Purley, London.[3][4] He was a member of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons, a leading member of the New Health Society and physician to Virginia Woolf.[2][5][6] He authored the book What's Best to Eat? which was dedicated to Sir William Arbuthnot Lane.[7]

Selected publications

• What's Best to Eat (with a foreword by Elmer McCollum, 1926)[7][8]
• The A.B.C. of Food (1929)[9]
• Facts About Food (1938)[10]
• Illness (1938)[11]

References

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