Ernest Arthur Freeman

Ernest Arthur Freeman FRCS (1900–1975) was an English orthopaedic surgeon.

Freeman received his secondary education at Westminster City School. In the last few weeks of WWI, he was conscripted and served as a private in the Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey). With his ex-serviceman's grant he entered St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School in 1919 as a student at the University of London. In 1925 he qualified MRCS, LRCP. In 1927 he graduated MB BS (Lond.) and qualified FRCS. At St Bartholomew's Hospital, after house appointments and serving as a junior demonstrator in pathology he joined George Gask's professorial unit as third assistant in a team comprising Thomas Peel Dunhill, Geoffrey Keynes, and James Paterson Ross.

Coming to Wolverhampton in 1931, he was appointed to the Royal Hospital and became senior surgeon in fractures and orthopaedics. He was also on the staff of the Guest Hospital, Dudley, Bridgnorth Infirmary, Brosley and Wenlock Hospitals and Patshull Rehabilitation Clinic.

In 1940, in the treatment of war casualties, he became associated with Patshull, which through his endeavours became a very active rehabilitation centre.

Freeman's claim to fame rests upon the 1938 description of the eponymous Freeman-Sheldon syndrome. The foot deformities involved in two paediatric cases of the syndrome were brought to Freeman's attention for possible surgical correction. Freeman then consulted with Sheldon, who was an expert on diseases of bone.

In 1950 in Wolverhampton, Freeman married Joan Mary Fisher Horrell (1912–2006). Upon his death he was survived by his widow, a son, and a daughter.

• wit E. A. Freeman: Freeman, E. A.; Sheldon, J. H. (July 1938). "Two Cases of Cranio-Carpo-Tarsal Dystrophy of? Undescribed Type". Proc R Soc Med. 31 (9): 1116–1119. doi:10.1177/003591573803100946. PMC 2076962. PMID 19991612.