Peter Froggatt

{{Short description|Northern Irish doctor and academic (1928–2020)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Sir Peter Froggatt''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FSS|FRCPI|FFPHM|FFOMI|FFCMI|FRCP}} (12 June 1928 − 3 May 2020) was a Northern Irish epidemiologist and academic.<ref name="burke">{{cite book |title= Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood|publisher=Burke's Peerage & Gentry |editor= Mosley, Charles |editor-link=Charles Mosley (genealogist) |edition=107 |year= 2003 |page= 1495 |ref=Burke |isbn=0-9711966-2-1}}</ref><ref name="BelfastTele">{{cite news |url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/professor-peter-froggatt-who-guided-queens-univeristy-belfast-through-austerity-and-the-troubles-dies-aged-91-39180217.html |title=Professor Peter Froggatt, who guided Queen's through austerity and the Troubles, dies aged 91 |work=Belfast Telegraph |location=Belfast |date=2020-05-05 |accessdate=2020-05-05 }}</ref> He served as Vice-Chancellor of the Queen's University, Belfast between 1976 and 1986.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/sir-peter-froggatt-b-1928-169027 |title=Your Paintings : Sir Peter Froggatt (b. 1928) |publisher=Art UK |accessdate=2015-09-20}}</ref>

==Early life and education== He was the son of Albert Victor Froggatt and Edith Curran. He was educated at Royal Belfast Academical Institution, the Royal School, Armagh and Trinity College, Dublin.<ref name="burke"/>

==Career== He worked at Sir Patrick Dun’s Hospital, Dublin and at Short Brothers and Harland & Wolff in Belfast.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://history.rcp.ac.uk/inspiring-physicians/sir-peter-froggatt |title= Sir Peter Froggatt |author= |date= |website= Royal College of Physicians |publisher= |access-date= 17 June 2025 |quote=}}</ref>

He joined Queen’s University in 1959; he became Professor of Epidemiology in 1968 and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine in 1971.<ref name=IMJ>{{cite web |url= https://imj.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Obituary-of-Sir-Peter-Froggatt.pdf |title= Obituary: Sir Peter Froggatt FSS FRCPI FRCP FFOM |author= |date= |website= Irish Medical Journal |publisher= |access-date= 17 June 2025 |quote=}}</ref>

He became Vice Chancellor of Queen's University in 1976.<ref name=QUB>{{cite web |url= https://www.qub.ac.uk/News/Allnews/2020/RememberingSirPeterFroggattformerPresidentandVice-Chancellor.html |title= Remembering Sir Peter Froggatt |author= |date= 5 May 2020 |website= Queen's University Belfast |publisher= |access-date= 17 June 2025 |quote=}}</ref>

He also served on several committees and societies, including The Independent Scientific Committee on Smoking and Health,<ref>{{cite web |url= https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-0348-7457-1_1 |title= 'Effects of Nicotine on Biological Systems' |author= |date= |website= Springer |publisher= |access-date= June 17, 2025 |quote=}}</ref> as well as the National Deaf Childrens’ Society (NI), Age Concern (NI), the Ulster Cancer Foundation, Co-Operation North, the American Ireland Fund and the NI Association for Mental Health;<ref name=UB>{{cite web |url= https://www.newulsterbiography.co.uk/index.php/home/viewPerson/2200 |title= Sir Peter Froggatt (1928 - 2020): Physician; epidemiologist; university administrator |author= |date= |website= Ulster Biography |publisher= |access-date= 17 June 2025 |quote=}}</ref> he was also an elder in the Presbyterian Church.

He was the Chairman of the Ulster College of Music during the 1990s.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.ulstercollegeofmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Sir-Peter-Froggatt.pdf |title= A short note in appreciation of Sir Peter Froggatt |author= |date= |website= Ulster College of Music |publisher= |access-date= 17 June 2025 |quote=}}</ref>

==Honours== He was knighted in 1985.<ref name=UB /><ref name=QUB />

He was a Foundation Fellow of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland.<ref name=IMJ />

He was a Fellow of the Faculty of Community Medicine at the Royal College of Physicians in London.<ref name=UB />

The Peter Froggatt Centre at Queen's University is named after him.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.qub.ac.uk/events-at-queens/venues/meeting%20rooms%20classrooms%20lecture%20theatres/ |title= Peter Froggatt Centre |author= |date= |website= Queen's University Belfast |publisher= |access-date= 17 June 2025 |quote=}}</ref>

==Family== He was married to Norma and they had four children.<ref name=IMJ />

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