sub-fonds GB 0117 MS 764 - Waynflete Professorship of Physiology, Oxford University

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GB 0117 MS 764 1895 and nd Sub-fonds 3 items Langley , John Newport , 1852-1925 , physiologist

Sherrington , Sir , Charles Scott , 1857-1952 , Knight , pathologist

Gotch , Francis , 1853-1913 , physiologist

Sir Charles Scott Sherrington (1857-1952) was Professor-Superintendent of the Brown Institution, which specialised in research into diseases of domestic animals. The Institute was situated in Wandsworth Road, South West London and was destroyed by bombing in 1944. Sherrington was later Professor of Pathology, University of London, and Lecturer on Physiology at St Thomas's Hospital.

John Newport Langley was born, 1852; Education: Exeter Grammar School; St John's College, Cambridge. BA (1875), MA (1878), ScD (1896); Career: Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge (1877, re-elected 1885); Lecturer, Trinity College, Cambridge; Lecturer, Cambridge University (1883-1903); Professor of Physiology, Cambridge (1903-1925); Fellow of the Royal Society, 1883; Royal Medal, 1892; Royal Society Council, 1897-1898; Royal Society Vice President, 1904-1905; died, 1925.

Francis Gotch was born, 1853; Education: BA; BSc (Lond); Hon MA (Oxon); MRCS; Fellow of the Royal Society, 1892; died, 1913.

Donated by E.G.T. Liddell, 1962.

Three letters of application for Waynflete Professorship of Physiology, two of J N Langley and Charles Scott Sherington dated 1895; one undated from Francis Gotch.

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Feb 2009. Sherrington , Sir , Charles Scott , 1857-1952 , Knight , pathologist Langley , John Newport , 1852-1925 , physiologist Physiology Gotch , Francis , 1853-1913 , physiologist Oxford University

Donated by E.G.T. Liddell, 1962.

Three letters of application for Waynflete Professorship of Physiology, two of J N Langley and Charles Scott Sherington dated 1895; one undated from Francis Gotch.

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General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

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