Frederick Grant Banting - Artist Info

About Frederick Grant Banting

Name variants

FG Banting, Sir Frederick Grant Banting
  • Biography

    Frederick Grant Banting was born on November 14, 1891, at Alliston, Ont., Canada. He was the youngest of five children of William Thompson Banting and Margaret Grant. Educated at the Public and High Schools at Alliston, he later went to the University of Toronto to study divinity, but soon transferred to the study of medicine.

    In 1916 he took his M.B. degree and at once joined the Canadian Army Medical Corps, and served, during the First World War, in France. In 1918 he was wounded at the battle of Cambrai, and in 1919 he was awarded the Military Cross for heroism under fire.
    When the war ended in 1919, Banting returned to Canada and was for a short time a medical practitioner at London, Ontario. He studied ort...

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