Frank Hamilton Lacey

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Frank Hamilton Lacey TD, FRCOG (1879–1958) was an Irish surgeon and a foundation fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. He was born on 2 May 1879 in Dublin; his father was a doctor and his mother descended from Bennet Langton, with letters from Samuel Johnson in the family memorabilia. He earned his MB ChB in 1906 and his MD in 1912 from the University of Manchester and worked at Saint Mary’s Hospital, Manchester. In World War I he served with the Royal Army Service Corps in Egypt and the Dardanelles, then with the Royal Army Medical Corps in France, retiring as a major and receiving the Territorial Decoration. After the war he was an honorary surgeon at Saint Mary’s and an honorary gynaecologist at the Christie Hospital, and he became a clinical lecturer in obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of Manchester. He died at his home in Balcombe in 1958, survived by his wife Evelyn Rudge Lacey and their three children.