VETERINARY COLLEGE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22497, 14 August 1936, Page 11

VETERINARY COLLEGE

APPOINTMENT IN LONDON SIR F. HOBDAY TO RETIRE British Wireless RUGBY, Angust 12 Professor J. Basil Buxton, -who occupies the Chair of animal pathology at Cambridge, has been appointed to succeed Sir Frederick Hobday as principal of the Royal Veterinary College. Sir Frederick is to retire after the 1 completion of the main block of the newcollege buildings. From the end of September, Professor Buxton <vill take up his duties as acting-principal. Sir Frederick Hobday, whose reputation as a veterinary surgeon is international, has been prominently associated with the Royal Veterinary College during much of his career. He was first appointed a professor there in 1894. Aftbr the Great War, in which he saw active service, Sir Frederick was made honorary veterinary surgeon to the King, being the first man to receive that distinction. From 1924 to 1926 he was president of tho comparative section of the Royal Society of Medicine and in 1927 was made principal of tho Royal Veterinary College. Ho was knighted in 1933. Professor Buxton has been professor of animal pathology at Cambridge sinde 1923. He was educated at Liverpool University and tho college to which ho is to be principal. He has occupied a number of important veterinary positions nni! was president of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons from 1932-33.