| Authorised form of name | Reynolds; Sir; John Russell (1828 - 1896); physician and neurologist |
| Dates | 1828 - 1896 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Romsey, Hampshire, England |
| Date of birth | 22 May 1828 |
| Place of death | His house in Grosvenor Street, London, England |
| Date of death | 29 May 1896 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Place of first marriage: St Pancras Old Church, London, England. |
| Occupation | physician and neurologist |
| Research field | Comparative anatomy |
| Physiology |
| Neurophysiology |
| Clinical medicine |
| Neurology |
| Medicine |
| Activity | Education:
Privately educated by his father in early childhood; University College, London. MB (1851), MD (1852)
Career:
Began practising in Leeds (1852); moved to London, taking over the house previously occupied by Marshal Hall (FRS 1832); Assistant Physician to the Hospital for Sick Children (1855); Assistant Physician, Westminster Hospital (1857); Assistant Physician, University College Hospital (1859); Professor of Clinical Medicine, University College, London (1865); physician-in-ordinary to the queen's household (1878); died as result of successive respiratory infections following a fall when leaving his carriage to enter his house (1896).
Honours:
Bt 1895
Memberships:
FRCP (1859; President 1893-1895)
Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society (VP 1883)
British Medical Association (1894) |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 03/06/1869 |
| Age at election | 41 |
| Proposer | Thomas Spencer Cobbold |
| Charles Brooke |
| Francis Sibson |
| Henry Charlton Bastian |
| Erasmus Wilson |
| Lionel Smith Beale |
| James Clark |
| Frederick William Pavy |
| James Moncrieff Arnott |
| Richard Partridge |
| James Ranald Martin |
| George Burrows |
| Thomas Graham |
| Alfred Baring Garrod |
| William Fergusson |
| Joseph Toynbee |
| James Paget |
| Edmund Alexander Parkes |
| Thomas Watson |
| Thomas Blizard Curling |
| Alexander Tweedie |
| Richard Quain |
| Caesar Henry Hawkins |
| Charles James Blasius Williams |
| Relationships | Parents: Revd John Reynolds, Congregational minister, and his second wife, Sarah, daughter of Robert Fletcher of Chester.
Grandfather: Henry Revell Reynolds (FRS 1781)
Spouse: 1) (28 August 1852) Margaret Susannah Ainslie (d. 1880); 2) (8 March 1881) Frances (b. 1834/5), widow of Charles John Champion Crespigny and daughter of William Plunkett, barrister. |
| OtherInfo | Particularly interested in disorders of the nervous system, publishing on vertigo, and diseases of the brain, spinal cord, and nerves. |
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| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Notes:
The following inserted in citation, and then crossed out: 'Author of Works on the Diseases of the Brain; the Vaso-motor System of Nerves; on Epilepsy: on the Electric Condition of the Nerves in Hemiplegia, and other Works. Editor of a System of Medicine. A B Garrod has signed election certificate twice |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/13932991 |
| Code | NA1469 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1869/14 | Reynolds, Sir John Russell: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| NLB/2/856 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Russell Reynold [Fellow of the Royal Society] | 26 November 1888 |
| NLB/13/57 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrisons & Sons | 2 June 1896 |
| IM/Maull/003797 | Reynolds, John Russell | 1893 |
| NLB/3/721 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to the Secretary of The Pasteur Fund, Mansion House | 24 September 1889 |
| NLB/3/949 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster, [Royal Society] | 22 November 1889 |
| MC/8/375 | Letter from J [John] Russell Reynolds, 38 Grosvenor Street, Grosvenor Square, to Dr [William] Sharpey, [Secretary of the Royal Society] | 7 June 1869 |
| MC/8 | Volume 8 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1867-1869 |
| AP/64/9 | Unpublished paper, 'On a perspective microscope' by George J [James] Burch | 1886-1887 |
| ACS/1/3/4/4 | Letter from [John] Russell Reynolds and [Frank Lloyd] Hopwood, Secretaries, Röntgen Society, 36 Harley Street, London, W.1, to [Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton] | 17 December 1926 |