| Authorised form of name | Florey; Howard Walter (1898 - 1968); Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston; pathologist and bacteriologist |
| Dates | 1898 - 1968 |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Place of birth | Adelaide, Australia |
| Date of birth | 24 September 1898 |
| Place of death | Oxford |
| Date of death | 21/02/1968 |
| Research field | Pathology |
| Activity | Education:
Kyre College, Adelaide; St Peter's Collegiate School, Adelaide; Adelaide University medical school. MB, BS (Adelaide); BSc (Oxford); PhD (1927, Cambridge)
Career:
Worked his passage to England as ship's surgeon to take up a Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford University (1921-1922); research work, at the invitation of Charles Sherrington, at Oxford (1923); medical officer to the third Oxford University Arctic Expedition; went to Department of Pathology, Cambridge University (1924); Rockefeller Scholar, studying microsurgical techniques (1925); Freedom Research Fellow, Lond on Hospital (1926); Huddersfield Lecturer in Pathology, University of Cambridge (1927); Fellow, Gonville and Caius College; Director of Medical Studies, Gonville and Caius; began to study lysozyme, discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming in 1922 (1929); Joseph Hunter Professor of Pathology, University of Sheffield (1932-1935); Professor of Pathology, University of Oxford (1935-1962); Fellow, Lincoln College, Oxford (1935), Honorary Fellow (1962); continued research on lysozyme, leading to the development of use of penicillin (by 1942); involved in the foundation of the Australian National University, Canberra, especially with the design and organization of the John Curtin School of Medical Research; Chancellor of the University (1965); Provost of Queen's College, Oxford and resigned Chair of Pathology (1962); suffered from angina and died of a heart attack
Medals and prizes:
Nobel Prize (Physiology or Medicine) 1945 jointly
Honours:
Kt 1944; Baron 1965; OM 1965 |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 20/03/1941 |
| RSActivity | Royal Society roles:
VP 1951-1953; PRS 1960-1965
Lectures:
Croonian 1954 |
| Relationships | Son of Joseph Florey, shoemaker of Oxfordshire who emigrated 1885, and his second wife (married 1889) Bertha Mary Wadham (Australian).
Married: 1) (1926) Ethel Mary Hayter, daughter of John Hayter Reed, Adelaide bank manager (she died 1966); one son and one daughter; 2) (1967) Dr Margaret Augusta Fremantle, daughter of 3rd Baron Cottesloe |
| Source | Sources:
DNB; DSB
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1971 vol 17 pp 255-302, plate, by E P Abraham
References:
Lord Adrian, 'Address at the Memorial Service for Lord Florey of Adelaide and Marston, OM, FRS, at Westminster Abbey on 28 March 1968' in NR 1968 vol 23 pp 29-30
Sir Arnold Burgen, review of Trevor I Williams, Howard Florey - Penicillin and After in NR 1990 vol 44 pp 136-137
Henry Harris, 'Howard Florey and the Development of Penicillin' in NR 1999 vol 53 pp 243-252, plate
J Corden, 'Web of Science History' project in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 383-388
E Sidebottom, 'Penicillin revisited; from mould to miracle. 'The mould in Dr Florey's coat: the remarkable true story of the penicillin miracle' by E Lax in NR 2005 vol 59 pp 96-97
A F Bristow, T Barrowcliffe and D R Bangham, 'Standardization of biological medicines: the first hundred years, 1900-2000' in NR 2006 vol 60 pp 271-289
Notes:
More info on web site: http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/nobel/florey.htm (print-out on file). |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/20520673 |
| Code | NA8056 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| GLB/65/95/1 | Howard Florey, Queen's College, Oxford to Brown | 15 February 1967 |
| GLB/57/23 | Contract between Brown and the BBC for item on Radio Four (Portrait of Lord Florey) | c1969 |
| GLB/19/1/19 | H W Florey, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford to Brown | 2 February 1960 |
| GLB/65/31 | Lord Florey | December 1968 - March 1969 |
| GLB/65/47/35 | Howard Florey, Provost, Queen's College, Oxford to Brown | 2 November 1966 |
| GLB/65/32/22 | H W Florey, Australian National University, Canberra to Brown | 20 July 1966 |
| GLB/65/95/2 | Brown to Howard Florey, Queen's College, Oxford | 16 February 1967 |
| IM/001458 | Florey, Howard Walter, Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston | 2001 |
| IM/GA/WG/9449 | Presidents 1940-1970 | nd |
| HWT/20/11 | Correspondence with Council of Europe and Department of Education and Science regarding European Scientific interchange | November 1966 |
| IM/001456 | Florey, Howard Walter, Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston | 1999 |
| MDA/A/4/77 | Note from A D Gardner, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, to Henry Dale, the Royal Institution, 21 Albemarle Street, W1 | 28 May 1943 |
| MDA/A/4/79 | Note from H W Florey, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, to Sir Henry Dale, President of the Royal Society | 22 May 1943 |
| MDA/A/4/75 | Letter from Sir Henry Dale, Chemical Defence Research Department, Porton, Salisbury, to Paul Fildes | 10 June 1943 |
| MDA/A/24/25/48 | Letter from A V Hill to H W Florey, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford | 13 August 1943 |
| MDA/A/4/76 | Letter from Henry Dale, President of the Royal Society, to A V Hill, Secretary of the Royal Society | 31 May 1943 |
| MDA/A/4/78 | Letter from Henry Dale to H W Florey, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford | 27 May 1943 |
| CMB/281/48 | Notes on papers passed for publication in the Proceedings | 1962 |
| IM/003324 | Tereshkova, Valentina | 6 February 1964 |
| IM/001475 | Florey, Howard Walter, Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston | 1991 |
| IM/001459 | Florey, Howard Walter, Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston | nd |
| IM/001470 | Florey, Howard Walter, Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston | 1992 |
| IM/001462 | Florey, Howard Walter, Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston | 1992 |
| IM/001474 | Florey, Howard Walter, Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston | 1992 |
| IM/001468 | Florey, Howard Walter, Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston | 1992 |
| IM/001465 | Florey, Howard Walter, Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston | 1992 |
| IM/001454 | Florey, Howard Walter, Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston | 2000 |
| MDA/A/16/9 | Copy letter from David Christie Martin to Thomas Ralph Merton | 12 February 1951 |
| HD/25/23 | Photograph of guests at dinner in honour of 90th birthday of Henry Dale | 11 June 1965 |
| RR/33/72 | Referee's report by Thomas Lewis, on a paper 'Observations on the resolution of stasis in the finer blood vessels' by Howard Walter Florey | June 1926 |
| RR/53/80 | Referee's report by Charles Arthur Lovatt Evans, on a paper 'A humoral control of the secretion of Brunner’s glands' by Howard Walter Florey and H E Harding | [November 1934] |
| RR/35/32 | Referee's report by Thomas Lewis, on a paper 'The mammalian lacteal: its histological structure in relation to its physiological properties' by H M Carleton and Howard Walter Florey | July 1927 |
| IM/001455 | Florey, Howard Walter, Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston | nd |
| IM/001467 | Florey, Howard Walter, Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston | 1992 |
| IM/001461 | Florey, Howard Walter, Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston | 1992 |
| IM/001469 | Florey, Howard Walter, Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston | 1992 |
| IM/001466 | Florey, Howard Walter, Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston | 1992 |
| PB/8/75/2/5 | Correspondence re toast to the Society, proposed by Sir Kenneth Wheare, President of the British Academy. | 1968 |
| IM/GA/WS/1412 | Florey, Howard Walter, Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston | 1946 |
| IM/001460 | Florey, Howard Walter, Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston | nd |
| IM/001472 | Florey, Howard Walter, Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston | 1992 |
| IM/001473 | Florey, Howard Walter, Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston | 1992 |
| IM/001463 | Florey, Howard Walter, Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston | 1992 |
| IM/001453 | Florey, Howard Walter, Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston | nd |
| IM/GA/WRS/5654 | Florey, Howard Walter, Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston | nd |
| IM/005835 | Florey, Howard Walter, Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston | nd |
| HF/1 | Howard Walter Florey's papers | 1846 - 1981 |
| MS/917 | Photographs belonging to G B R Feilden from a Royal Society visit to the Academy of Science, Russia | [1960-1965] |
| IM/001457 | Florey, Howard Walter, Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston | 1999 |
| IM/001283 | Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 21 November 1967 |
| IM/001471 | Florey, Howard Walter, Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston | 1992 |
| EC/1941/08 | Florey, Howard Walter, Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| P/0042 | Portrait of Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston | 1965 |
| HF | Papers of Howard Walter Florey PRS, pathologist | 1924-1968 |
| IM/000850 | Ciba Foundation Dinner, 26 November 1964, signatures of guests | 1964 |
| MDA/N/1/159 | Correspondence between Howard Walter Florey and the Royal Society | 7 December 1952-14 April 1958 |