Fleming Mant Sandwith
(1853-1918), Consultant physicianSitter in 4 portraits
by Walter Stoneman
whole-plate glass negative, 1918
NPG x44128
by Walter Stoneman
half-plate glass negative, 1918
NPG x44130
Comments back to top
We are currently unable to accept new comments, but any past comments are available to read below.
If you need information from us, please use our Archive enquiry service . Please note that we cannot provide valuations. You can buy a print or greeting card of most illustrated portraits. Select the portrait of interest to you, then look out for a Buy a Print button. Prices start at around £6 for unframed prints, £16 for framed prints. If you wish to license an image, select the portrait of interest to you, then look out for a Use this image button, or contact our Rights and Images service. We digitise over 8,000 portraits a year and we cannot guarantee being able to digitise images that are not already scheduled.
Dr Eric Webb
18 January 2021, 11:54
Here is a potted biography I prepared for the Great War Roll of Honour of Charterhouse School:
Temporary Colonel, RAMC. Born in Bombay 11th October 1853, the 2nd son of Colonel John William Fleming Sandwith of the Indian Army and his wife Ethel.
He was at Charterhouse [S] 1866 - 1869, ie. before the School moved to Godalming, then a medical student at St. Thomas’ Hospital London. He qualified MRCS in 1876 and LRCP in 1877; later MD at Durham University in 1893 and FRCP in 1900. He served as an ambulance surgeon in the Turco-Serbian war of 1876, and in the Russo-Turkish campaign of 1877-78, then practised as a GP in Wandsworth. From 1883 he held civilian medical posts in Egypt, from 1900 and through the South African War he was senior physician to the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital at Pretoria, after which he pursued a distinguished career in London. The Times of 7th December 1915 reports him currently as Gresham Professor of Physic and Senior Physician at the London School for Tropical Medicine; but recently appointed Consulting Physician with His Majesty’s troops in the Mediterranean and shortly to leave for Egypt. In 1916 in recognition of his services in Egypt he received the CMG.
He married firstly in 1882 Anne Christina, only daughter of William Glassford of Gibraltar, secondly in 1891 Gladys, youngest daughter of Humphrey Sandwith, a distant relative. With Gladys he had two sons and two daughters, their 2nd son John Fleming Sandwith was at Charterhouse [S] 1916 - 1920.
The Times of 20th February 1918 carries a full obituary. He had died suddenly aged 64, on 18th February 1918, at a convalescent home in Bournemouth having ‘broken down in health after two years of very hard and continuous work in Egypt’. The BMJ (2nd March 1918) and the Lancet also published obituaries furnishing extensive details of his medical career.
Grave location unknown. He is commemorated on a war memorial in the chapel of St. Thomas’ Hospital, London.
He is the School’s oldest recorded Great War casualty.