The Lasbrey Family
Frederick Oakley Lasbrey
9 November 1872, in Uttoxeter,
Staffordshire, England
10 January 1873, in Uttoxeter,
Staffordshire, England
Frederick William Lasbrey
Louisa Jane (Oakley) Lasbrey
University of Edinburgh,
graduating M.B., Ch.B. in 1897
Emily
Frances Waller on 23 January 1902
May Broadfoot, in 1908 in
Cairo, Egypt
May was a nurse / sister / matron at the Cairo Hospital.
Physician. Frederick was
a missionary doctor with the Church Missionary Society (C.M.S.) in Egypt,
where he became the medical superintendent of the Old Cairo Mission
Hospital. After 30 years in Egypt, Frederick returned to Edinburgh in 1929
to become superintendent and secretary of the Edinburgh Medical Missionary
Society. He retired from this post in 1938, and became a G.P. in
Wethersfield, Essex.
Frederick described the Mission Hospital in an article in The
Muslim World July 1924 p279
EVANGELISTIC WORK IN THE OLD CAIRO HOSPITAL
There are in Egypt two principal diseases, grave ailments affecting
many thousands of people. One of these is Ankylostomiasis, or Hook Worm
disease, characterized by Anĉmia, and the other Bilharziasis. For many
years thousands of Egyptians suffering from the former complaint have
sought treatment at our hands; and more recently, since an effectual
remedy has been discovered, crowds of patients suffering from Bilharzial
disease have come to the hospital. The Ankylostoma patients, the great
majority of whom are in-patients, make a stay of ten to twelve days, and
more than half of the Bilharzial patient either enter the actual wards of
the hospital or the Anĉmia
shelters, where they remain nearly a month. Treatment of community
diseases such as the above affords the opportunity of "broadcasting" the
Gospel in a way unparalleled by any other method of Evangelism. When the
fact is considered that, in the course of a year, these patients come from
close upon a thousand villages throughout the country, it is not difficult
to see that the opportunity thus provided may be a veritable lever for
evangelism in the hands of the Medical Missionary.
A
Case of Abdominal or Bilocular Hydrocele (British
Medical Journal 26 August 1916 p292)
Notes
on One Thousand Cases of Bilharziasis Treated by Antimony Tartrate (British Medical Journal 26 February 1921
pp299-301)
Treatment
of Bilharziasis by Antimony Tartrate (British
Medical Journal 24 May 1924 pp907-8)
30 December 1967, in Kempston,
Bedfordshire, England, aged 95
British
Medical Journal 6 April 1868 p55
F. O. LASBREY, M.B., CH.B.
Dr. F. O. Lasbrey, a former medical superintendent of the Old Cairo
Mission Hospital, and later superintendent and secretary of the Edinburgh
Medical Missionary Society, died in Kempston, Bedfordshire, on 30 December
1967, at the age of 95.
Frederick Oakley Lasbrey was born on 9 November 1872, and received
his medical education at the University of Edinburgh, graduating M.B.,
Ch.B. in 1897. Shortly afterwards he went to Cairo under the Church
Missionary Society to work in the famous Old Cairo Mission Hospital, of
which he later became the medical superintendent. In 1929 he returned to
Edinburgh after some 30 years in Egypt to become the superintendent and
secretary of the Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society, under which he had
trained as a medical student. He did valuable work in this connexion for
nine years, retiring in 1938 to go into general practice at Wethersfield,
Essex.
Dr. Lasbrey was a quiet man, loved and respected by those who knew
him. One Egyptian who worked in his hospital said of him that " he was
faithful in his deeds, kind to his workers, wise in his words, surpasses
all others in his ministry to all the poor . . ."
His had been a long and useful life dedicated to the service of
others.- E. L. F.
1881:
Heath
Villa, Uttoxeter, Stafford
1891: 45 St Peter's Street,
Bedford St Peter, Bedfordshire
1901: Little Coxwell, Berkshire: Frederick C. Lasbrey is aged 28, born in
Uttoxeter, Stafforshire. He is a Physician and Surgeon.
Harold William Lasbrey
15
October 1904
Frederick
Oakley Lasbrey
Emily
Frances (Waller) Lasbrey
4 November 1905, in Old Cairo, Cairo,
Egypt
Mercy and truth: a record of C.M.S. medical mission
work p28 (1906)
Personal Announcements
DEATH.
Egypt. - Harold, infant son of
Dr. and Mrs. F. D. Lasbrey, at Old Cairo, on November 4. Aged one year.
The cause of Harold's death was to do with the climate in Egypt. In a eulogy
to his mother, who died the next year, we find:
Blessed Be Egypt October 1906 p121
We remember well when she returned from England
this last time, with her little son in whom she rejoiced; and then, on
almost the morrow of her return, God's hand was laid upon the lad, and He
took him away to Himself. Did she murmur? Did she vex herself? Did she
rebel? No! She said, "But for the climate, he would not have died. I am
glad, therefore, that by this I know it was for the cause, for the work's
sake, that he has been given!" Noble words! in which she expressed her
utter devotion to Jesus Christ, and her willingness to sacrifice her very
dearest for Him and His Kingdom.
Violet Arabella (Lasbrey) Warren
Frederick Oakley Lasbrey
Emily
Frances (Waller) Lasbrey
Desmond Cecil Robert Warren in 1929
in St
Martin district, London, England.
Desmond was born on 21 April 1895 at 71 Stephen Green S, Dublin, Ireland,
the son of Henry Charles Warren and Florence _____. He was baptised on 24
June 1895 in St Matthias, Dublin.
Desmond served in World War I and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in
the Army Service Corps on 5 July 1915 (London Gazette 14 July 1915 p6925)
Census:
1901:
St. Stephen's Green S. Dublin, Ireland
1911: Holywell, Flintshire: Desmond Cecil Robert Warren, boarder, is aged
15, born in Dublin
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