Frederick Batten was born on 29 September 1865 in Plymouth. He attended
Westminster School and
Trinity College, Cambridge, and graduated in medicine in 1891 from
St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College in London. He worked as a pathologist at the
Hospital for Sick Children and as a physician at the National Hospital. He obtained his doctorate in 1895, became a fellow of the
Royal College of Physicians in 1901, and was elected dean in 1908.
Batten disease was named after him after he first described it in 1903. Batten died from infection after a routine
prostatectomy. ==Eponym==