Educated at Winchester School, and then Trinity College Cambridge, Roger Tredgold became one of the leading British experts in psychiatry and was the consultant psychiatrist at University College Hospital (UCH) from 1948, until his untimely death at the age of 64 in 1975. His department at the UCH became one of the most respected teaching units in the country. He wrote many papers and books on mental health issues, and was a founder member of the International Committee of Occupational Mental Health.
Tredgold served in World War II with the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) as an advisor in psychiatry to the Allied Forces in Asia. At UCH, Tredgold was an outstanding fencer and was adept with all weapons. In 1933 he was the Hospitals sabre champion, British junior sabre champion and won the Universities’ Athletic Union (UAU) title. He won the British Sabre Championship six times in 1937, 1939, 1947-49, 1955. and competed in three Olympics 1936-52. In his later years. Tredgold got great tranquillity and relaxation from bird-watching.
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