Born: November 14, 1891

Died: February 21, 1941

Buried at: Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto

Date of Birth 1891-11-14 Place of birth: Alliston, Ontario

Date of Death 1941-02-21 Place of death: near Musgrave Harbour, Newfoundland Cause of death: Airplane crash

Also known as Sir Frederick Grant Banting

Frederick Banting was the discoverer of insulin and winner of a Nobel Prize for medicine in 1923 shared with J.J.R. Macleod

Inscription: FREDERICK GRANT BANTING
1891 KBE 1941

HENRIETTA E. BALL BANTING
1912 M.A., M.D., FR, COC, LLD 1976

Interment Info Section 29, Lot 29, of Mount Pleasant Cemetery, in Toronto.

Web references:

https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/1941-sir-frederick-banting-dies-in-plane-crash

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/sir-frederick-grant-banting

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