D.A.R. Aufranc (1892-1979)

Headshot photo created by Kirsty Haining. Digital photo from Paul Aufranc

Aufranc, Douglas Albert Raoul

b: May 14, 1892; Le Havre, Seine-Maritime, France
d: April 18, 1979; Truro, Cornwall, England

Family

• His grandfather, a professor of languages and translator, was one of the first European converts to the church due to the efforts of J.N. Andrews in Switzerland
• His father, Paul Louis, migrated to England while young and married Annie Marie Armstrong
• He married Gertrude Mary McMillan in Watford, Hertfordshire, England and had one son, Paul Raoul

Highlights & Accomplishments

• Well-known as a physician and dentist in London
• Worked as a dental surgeon for Hampstead General Outpatients Department
• Served as an advisor for the Good Health Association, a group of Adventist medical institutions in Great Britain
• One of his articles entitled, “Fighting Against Death” was featured in a commemorative magazine published in Britain titled This Century of Wonders
• Regularly contributed to Advent Review and Sabbath Herald (later Review and Herald) around 1930s and early 1940s by authoring several articles and poems
• Also wrote practical articles on health which appeared in Life and Health magazine

Hymns included in the Seventh-Day Adventist Hymnal

Far From All Care, SDAH 394
Alone With Thee, SDACH 335
There Is A Road, SDACH 374

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