Feiling, Anthony

Person

Feiling, Anthony

1885-1975

Born at Epsom, son of Ernest Feiling and Joan Barbara Hawkins. Educated at Marlborough. Studied natural sciences at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and medicine at St Bartholomew’s and in Frankfurt. Served in the RAMC during the First World War.

Appointed assistant physician (later senior physician) at St George’s Hospital in 1923, and dean of the Medical School in 1926-1936. Also worked as casualty physician and temporary assistant physician to St Bartholomew’s, physician to the Metropolitan Hospital and to the Western Ophthalmic Hospital, physician to the Maida Vale Hospital for Epilepsy and Nervous Diseases, and to the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. During the Second World War, worked as Sector Hospital Officer in the EMS.

Although a practicing general physician, Feiling was interested in neurology. He was a founder member and later president of the Association of British Neurologists, president of the Neurology Section of the RSM, and member of the Société de Neurologie de Paris and the American Academy of Neurology. Lettsomian Lecturer of the Medical Society of London in 1942 in epilepsy; president of the Society in 1944. Goulstonian lecturer, councillor, censor and senior censor at the Royal College of Physicians.

Editor of ‘Modern Trends in Neurology’. Author of a history of the Maida Vale Hospital, and co-author of textbook ‘Modern Medical Treatment’ with E. Bellingham-Smith. Appointed the first psychiatrist to St George’s, Desmond Curran, and supported the establishment of neurological centre at Atkinson Morley’s Hospital.

Married to Helen Hope, his cousin; they had one son. Helen was a member of the Board of Governors at St George’s and of the South West Metropolitan Regional Board.

Royal College of Physicians