Edward Price Furber

Edward Price Furber (1864 to 1940) was a British obstetrician and surgeon. The son of Charles Furber, he was educated at Charterhouse School and trained as a doctor at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London. He became obstetric physician at Lady Howard de Walden's Hospital for Officers' Wives, and during the First World War worked at the McCaul Military Hospital and the Mackinnon Military Hospital; for these services he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in January 1920. He later served as honorary medical superintendent of St Luke's Hospital for Advanced Cases. He married Olive Mann in 1890 and they had one son and two daughters; his son Stanhope also became a surgeon, and his brother was the cricketer Leonard Furber. The article draws on Who Was Who for these details.