Richard Frean (1839–87)

Physician and surgeon. Trained at the Middlesex Hospital, London; governor’s prizeman in clinical surgery and medicine, 1871. Resident obstetrical assistant at the Middlesex Hospital. Practised in Plymouth, 1872. Emigrated to Australia, where he became surgeon at Hay Hospital, New South Wales, 1874–6. Resident medical officer, Sydney Infirmary, from 1877.