Truby King

Frederic Truby King was a New Zealand physician and health reformer whose work reshaped institutional care and infant welfare. As medical superintendent of Seacliff Asylum, he introduced reforms in patient care, nutrition, farming, and hospital management. In 1907, he helped establish the Society for the Promotion of the Health of Women and Children, later known as the Plunket Society, promoting organized maternal and infant care across New Zealand and beyond.