Carpenter, G. D. Hale (Geoffrey Douglas Hale), 1882-

Carpenter was born on October 26, 1882 and came from a distinguished academic family; both his father and grandfather were doctors of science and Fellows of the Royal Society. He had the rare privilege of being born in Eton College, where his father was an assistant master and his mother daughter of another. He was educated at the Dragon School (Lynams's), Bradfield College and St Catherine's Oxford, graduating B.A. with a second-class in his final examination in 1904 and then passing with a University Entrance Scholarship to St George's Hospital. He qualified M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. in 1908 taking the degrees of B.M., B.Ch. in the same year and he proceeded to the D.M. five years later. After qualification he held the appointments of house-surgeon and house-physician at St George's Hospital.

In 1910 he entered the Colonial Medical Service and studied tropical medicine under Patrick Manson at the London School of Tropical Medicine in 1910 where he gained a certificate with distinction.

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