Comfort, Alexander [Alex] (1920–2000), physician and writer, was born on 10 February 1920 at 21 Palmerston Crescent, Edmonton, Middlesex, the only son of Alexander Charles Comfort (1882/3–1975), an education officer for the London county council, and his wife, Daisy Elizabeth, née Fenner (...
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Munthe, Axel Martin Fredrik (1857–1949), physician and author, was born on 31 October 1857 at Oskarshamn, Sweden, youngest of the three children of Martin Fredrik Munthe (1816–1877), apothecary, and his second wife, Aurora Louisa Uparsky (d. 1889). His forebears were wealthy landowners from ...
