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Professor Hugh Lionel Freeman was born in Salford, Manchester. From Altrincham Grammar School, he won an open scholarship to study modern history at St Johns College, Oxford. After his switch to medicine, he finished his national service as a Captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He then specialized in psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital, London, returning to Salford as a consultant psychiatrist in 1961 at the remarkably young age of 31. He set up community mental health services devoted to reducing hospitalizations to improve the lives of his patients, and initiated the Salford Psychiatric Case Register. He was consultant at the University of Manchester and professor of psychiatry at the University of Salford, as well as receiving many international honors.
Hugh was the fourth editor of the...