Sir Frederick Treves, 1st Baronet
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Sir Frederick Treves, 1st Baronet GCVO CH CB (born February 15, 1853, died December 7, 1923) was a surgeon at the Royal London Hospital in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. He is most notable for having befriended Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man (sometimes inaccurately referred to as "John").
He married in 1877 to Ann Elizabeth.
In 1902, Treves was sergeant surgeon to King Edward VII and performed an appendicectomy and drainage of an appendix abscess on him. The operation was performed two days before the king's intended coronation, after which he made an uncomplicated recovery from his surgery and the following year Treves was made a baronet.
After his retirement King Edward lent him the Thatched House Cottage in Richmond Park. He soon developed heart failure and 1920 went to live in the south of France and on Lake Geneva at Evian. In 1922 he survived an episode of severe pneumonia, but the following year he developed acute cholecystitis and peritonitis. He died on December 7 1923, was cremated, and his ashes were brought back and buried at Dorchester Cemetery.
He was also the author of many books, including The Elephant Man and other reminiscences (1923), Surgical applied Anatomy (1883) The Highways and Byways of Dorset and the Students Handbook of Surgical Operations (1892). From 1902 to 1910 he was Serjeant Surgeon in the Royal Household.
In the David Lynch film The Elephant Man, Treves is played by Anthony Hopkins.
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