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Frederick
Parkes Weber was the son of Sir Hermann David Weber
(1823-1918), who came to England from Germany
as a young man and became physician to Queen
Victoria. The middle name "Parkes"
was derived from his father's great friend,
Sir Edmund Parkes and in time this forename
became coupled with his surname, so that he
was generally known as "Parkes
Weber". He was educated at Charterhouse
School, Cambridge University and studied
medicine at St. Bartholomew's Hospital,
London, as well as in Cambridge, Paris, and
Vienna.
Weber obtained his doctorate at Cambridge in 1892 and after
qualification held resident posts at St. Bartholomew's Hospital
as House Surgeon and House Physician, and at the Brompton
Hospital for Chest Diseases as house physician, before being
appointed as honorary physician to the German Hospital, Queen
Square, London, in 1894. In this capacity he carried on with his
duties until he reached his 80th year. He was also physician at
the North London Hospital for Consumption. From 1899 to 1911 he
was first assistant physician, then physician at the Mount
Vernons Hospital for Chest Diseases. In 1921 Parker was the
first Mitchell Lecturer at the Royal College of physicians.
Weber remained active at the Royal Society of Medicine until
after the age of 90 years. Over a span of 50 years he wrote over
1.200 medical articles and contributed to more than 20 books or
chapters.
Like his father he was a keen alpinist and collector of coins
and vases, which towards the end of his life he donated to
museums. Among his many fascinating articles was one on death in
the arts, 1910, and he also wrote books on the philosophy of
medicine.
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