Sir Harold Brian Seymour Warren (19 December 1914 – 18 August 1996), was medical officer to the

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in 1943, physician at the

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, then resident medical officer at the

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, London, where he worked with Matron Alice Saxby and came to know and later became personal physician to British Prime Minister

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. His first wife was Dame Josephine Barnes.Hough, 1998, pp. 126-127Hough, 1998, pp. 138-139. He was

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in the

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. Born in

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, Bedfordshire in 1914, the elder son of an

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n gentleman farmer, Warren inherited from his mother a lifelong love of the countryside in all its aspects.

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Hough, Richard Richard Alexander Hough (; 15 May 1922 – 7 October 1999) was a British author and historian specializing in maritime history. Personal life Hough married the author Charlotte Hough, Charlotte Woodyatt, whom he had met when they were pupils at ...

(1998)
''Sister Agnes: The History of King Edward VII's Hospital for Officers 1899-1999''
London: John Murray. 1914 births 1996 deaths 20th-century British medical doctors People from Toddington, Bedfordshire Knights Bachelor {{UK-med-bio-stub