Honorable J. Fortescue (alleged to have been born in 1868) was a nonexistent American surgeon and founder of the International Board of Hygiene that the League of Nations recognised in 1926.
The International Board of Hygiene was little else than a group of drinking friends who had founded it in a Turf Bar in Tijuana, Baja California, during the Prohibition.
On October 21, 1926, Pickard sent a long letter to the League of Nations headquarters in Geneva and received recognition in a couple of weeks.
The United States National Research Council included him in a directory of child psychologists and he was invited to join the American Conference on Hospital Service.
His only official address was "The International Board of Hygiene, 1908 Eutaw Place, Baltimore, Maryland".