| Sydney Henning Belfrage | |
| Birth Date: | 21 July 1871 |
| Birth Place: | Lambeth, London |
| Death Place: | Penn, Buckinghamshire |
| Children: | Cedric Belfrage, Bruce Belfrage, Douglas Henning Belfrage |
| Relatives: | Nicolas Belfrage (grandson) Julian Rochfort Belfrage (grandson) Sally Belfrage (granddaughter) Ixta Belfrage (great granddaughter) Beatriz Belfrage (great granddaughter) |
| Occupation: | Physician, writer |
Sydney Henning Belfrage (21 July 1871 – 31 May 1950) M.D., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., was an English physician and writer.[1] He established a sizable general practice, served as the Divorce Registry's medical inspector, and was regarded as an authority on the law of nullity.[1]
Belfrage was born on 21 July 1871 in Lambeth.[2] [3] He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, University College Hospital and St Thomas' Hospital.[3] He obtained his M.D. in 1900.[2]
Belfrage married Frances Grace Powley on 7 September 1899 at Purley, London.[3] [4] He was a member of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons, a leading member of the New Health Society and physician to Virginia Woolf.[2] [5] [6] He authored the book What's Best to Eat? which was dedicated to Sir William Arbuthnot Lane.[7]
In 1926, Belfrage was Honorary Medical Secretary of the New Health Society.[8]
Belfrage lectured on the benefits of a lacto-ovo vegetarian diet.[9] [10] George Bernard Shaw attended his lecture "Diet and Race" in 1934.[10] Belfrage argued that eating vegetables alone was not good enough and that the building material for the body should come from a non-flesh diet that also contains eggs and milk.[11] He attended the 6th World Vegetarian Congress in 1926.[12]