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English pathologist (1855–1921)
German Sims Woodhead
Sir German Sims Woodhead ,
KBE
FRSE PRMS LLD (29 April 1855 – 29 December 1921) was an
English
pathologist .
[1]
[2]
Life
He was born at Woodland Mount, a large country house near
Huddersfield , on 29 April 1855 the son of
Joseph Woodhead , a newspaper owner (and later politician), and his wife Catherine Woodhead.
He was educated at
Huddersfield College .
[3] He then studied Medicine at
Edinburgh University , graduating MB ChB in 1878.
From 1885 to 1890 he worked as a lab assistant in Edinburgh University, living then at 6 Marchhall Crescent.
[4] During his time in Edinburgh, in 1886, he was elected a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh . His proposers were
Sir William Turner ,
Alexander Crum Brown ,
Robert Gray and
Sir John Murray .
[5]
In 1890, aged only 35, he became Director of the Conjoint Laboratories of the Royal Colleges of Physicians and of Surgeons in
London .
In 1899 he was made
Professor of
Pathology in
Cambridge University .
[6] He was the first Editor of the
Journal of Pathology .
In the
First World War he was the Inspector of Government Laboratories serving all military hospitals. He was attached to the
RAMC at the rank of Lt Colonel. Largely as a result of this service he was knighted (KBE) by King
George V in 1919.
He died at
Aisthorpe Hall in
Lincolnshire
[7] on 29 December 1921 and is buried in
Cambridge City Cemetery .
[8]
Family
In 1881, he married Harriet Elizabeth St Clair Erskine Yates.
[9]
Published work
Practical Pathology (1883)
Pathological Mycology (1885), with A. W. Hare
Bacteria and Their Products (1891)
Report to the Royal Commission on
Tuberculosis (1895)
References
^ Ritchie, J.; Boycott, A. E.; Dean, H. R. (1922).
"German Sims Woodhead. K.B.E., M.D., LL.D. Born April 29th, 1855-Died December 29th, 1921" . The Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology . 25 : 118.
doi :
10.1002/path.1700250114 .
^
"Woodhead, German Sims (WDHT899GS)" . A Cambridge Alumni Database . University of Cambridge.
^ Woodhead, Harriett (1923). Sir German Sims Woodhead, K.B.E . Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, Tweeddale Court. p. 2.
^ Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1890
^
Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF) . The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006.
ISBN
978-0-902198-84-5 . Archived from
the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 11 September 2019 .
^
"WOODHEAD, German Sims" . Who's Who . Vol. 59. 1907. p. 1929.
^ BMJ obituary 7 January 1922
^
"Sir German Sims Woodhead (1855-1921) - Find A..." www.findagrave.com . Retrieved 8 September 2021 .
^
Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF) . The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006.
ISBN
0-902-198-84-X . Archived from
the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 11 September 2019 .
External links
Works by German Sims Woodhead at
Project Gutenberg
Works by or about German Sims Woodhead at
Internet Archive
Sir German Sims Woodhead
Michael Worboys,
'Woodhead, Sir German Sims (1855–1921)' , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press, 2004
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain :
Gilman, D. C. ; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Wood'head, German Sims (1844–)".
New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
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