Richard Alan John Asher
(1912-1969)
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Richard Alan John Asher, FRCP (3 April 1912 – 25 April 1969) was an eminent British endocrinologist and haematologist. As the senior physician responsible for the mental observation ward at the Central Middlesex Hospital he described and named Munchausen syndrome in a 1951 article in The Lancet.
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Richard Alan John Asher 3 April 1912 Brighton, Sussex
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25 April 1969 (aged 57) Marylebone, London
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Peter Asher 2nd child with Margaret Augusta Eliot Male b. 22 Jun 1944 · Age: 81 · 1944- · British guitarist, singer, manager and record producer -
Jane Asher 3rd child with Margaret Augusta Eliot Female b. 5 Apr 1946 · Age: 79 · 1946- · English actress and author
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