SIR PHILIP PROCTOR

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 143, 13 December 1940, Page 9

SIR PHILIP PROCTOR

(British Official Wireless.) (Received December 13, 8.15 a.m.) RUGBY, December 12. Sir Philip Proctor is dead, at the age of 70. He was Director of Meat Supplies at the Ministry of Food in 1919-21 and was knighted in 1920.

Dr. Caleb Williams Saleeby was born at Worthing in 1878 and first educated by his mother, who was a daughter of Dr. Caleb Williams, of York. Later he went to the Royal High School and Edinburgh University, where he took his M.B. and Ch.B. with first-class honours and later became resident physician in the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, and assistant to' the late Sir Jonathan Hutchinson at the Pplyclinic, London. In 1924 he founded the: Sunlight League, and he was a pa^t chairman of the World League Against Alcoholism and a vice-president of the Divorce Law Reform League. He also served on various Royal Commissions. On a number of occasions he has.been Royal Institution Lecturer on Eugenics and he lectured abroad on 'public health. In the World War he had a position with the Ministry of Food. He was the first medical broadcaster 16 years ago, and has written on many subjects.