Tredgold, Roger, 1911-1975 (Personal Name)

Human relations in modern industry, 1949: title page (R.F. Tredgold, M.A., M.D., D.P.M.)

Tredgold's text-book of mental deficiency, 1963: title page (R.F. Tredgold)

Psychiatry in general practice, 1970: title page (edited by Roger Tredgold)

U.C.H. notes on psychiatry: for students and general practitioners, 1975: title page (edited by Roger Tredgold)

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, via WWW, March 11, 2015 (Tredgold, Roger Francis (1911-1975), physician and fencer, was born on 23 October 1911 in Guildford, Surrey, the son of Alfred Frank Tredgold (1870-1952), physician, and his wife, Zoë Hanbury (d. 1947); he was educated at Winchester College and at Trinity College, Cambridge, before completing his medical studies at University College Hospital, London; as a young doctor in the Royal Army Medical Corps during the war he became adviser in psychiatry to the allied land forces in India and in south-east Asia, then adviser to the National Health Service, and finally to the army at home; he subsequently compiled three updated editions of his father's textbook Mental Retardation; in 1948 he was appointed consultant psychiatrist at University College Hospital (UCH), and within three years became head of the department of psychological medicine there, a post he held for over twenty-five years; Tredgold was a pioneer in the field of industrial mental health; he was also an inspiring teacher and lecturer, as well as the author of the seminal work Human Relations in Modern Industry (1949; rev. edn, 1963); he also edited Bridging the Gap (1958), and was co-editor of UCH Notes on Psychiatry for Students and General Practitioners (1970); as a young man Tredgold was an outstanding fencer, and represented Britain at three Olympic games (1936, 1948, and 1952); he also won the British sabre championship a record six times, stretching from 1937 to 1955; in 1948, the year in which he took up his consultancy at UCH, he became the first editor of a national magazine for fencing, The Sword, and continued to produce this thrice-yearly publication for the next five years; he was diagnosed in 1975 with prostate cancer and died on 24 December 1975 at his home, White Cottage, Old Heathfield, Sussex)

Wikipedia, March 11, 2015 (Roger Tredgold; Roger Tredgold (23 October 1911-24 December 1975) was a British fencer; he competed at the 1936, 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics; he was born in Guildford, England and died in Heathfield, East Sussex, England)