Wilfred Grenfell
Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, KCMG (28 February 1865 – 9 October 1940) was a medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador.
He was born at Parkgate, Wirral, England, the son of Rev. Algernon Sidney Grenfell, headmaster of Mostyn House School, and Jane Georgiana Hutchison and married Anne Elizabeth Caldwell MacClanahan of Chicago, Illinois, in 1909. She died in 1938. They had three children and retired to Vermont after his work in Newfoundland.
Read more about Wilfred Grenfell: Medical Education and Mission Work, Introduction of Reindeer, International Grenfell Association, Historical Society, Literary Inspiration, Grenfell Cloth, Veneration, Awards, Publications
Famous quotes containing the word grenfell:
“Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.”
—Joyce Grenfell (1910–1979)