Gift marks 100th birthday of former member of the Society's Council
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society has sent congratulations and a gift of French brandy to a former Council member who has reached his 100th birthday after continuous membership of the Society for 78 years.
Frank Yeomans lives in Birmingham, where he was born on 14 June 1906.
He qualified as a pharmacist in July 1928 and gained experience in pharmacy
management before acquiring his own business in the city.
He became involved in local pharmacy politics and in 1937 the Birmingham
Pharmaceutical Association adopted him as a candidate for the Council
election in the hope that he could fill a vacancy caused by the retirement
of the Council’s only member from the Midlands. He was successful
in the election but he was to remain on the Council for only 16 months.
He resigned in October 1938 when he was offered and accepted an appointment
in South Africa.
In a recent letter thanking the Society for its gift and its good wishes,
Mr Yeomans said that he had enjoyed a wide experience of life but that
membership of the Council had been one of the highlights.
The Society’s registration section has confirmed that Mr Yeomans
is the oldest person on the Society’s Register. The next oldest
is a 97-year-old woman pharmacist who was born on 6 August 1908.
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