George Alfred Carpenter

After holding a residential appointment at The Coppice, Nottingham, a private asylum, he returned to London in 1885, and began to specialise in children's diseases.

Having served as house surgeon, registrar and chloroformist, he was elected physician to the Evelina Hospital, Southwark.

[2] At the time of his death, Carpenter was physician to the Queen's Hospital for Children, Hackney.

He died suddenly at Coldharbour, Waddon, Surrey, on 27 March 1910, and was buried in Old Sanderstead churchyard.

His major publications were on congenital malformations of the heart, which was also the subject of his Wightman lecture delivered in 1909 before the section for the study of disease in children, Royal Society of Medicine, and published in the British Journal of Children's Diseases in 1909.

A short work, Golden Rules for Diseases of Infants and Children, published in 1901, reached a fourth and revised edition in 1911.

[2] Carpenter married on 21 April 1908 Hélène Jeanne, daughter of Henry, Baron d'Este.