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Authorised form of nameReynolds; Sir; John Russell (1828 - 1896); physician and neurologist
Dates1828 - 1896
NationalityBritish
Place of birthRomsey, Hampshire, England
Date of birth22 May 1828
Place of deathHis house in Grosvenor Street, London, England
Date of death29 May 1896
DatesAndPlacesPlace of first marriage: St Pancras Old Church, London, England.
Occupationphysician and neurologist
Research fieldComparative anatomy
Physiology
Neurophysiology
Clinical medicine
Neurology
Medicine
ActivityEducation:
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 categoryFellow
Date of election03/06/1869
Age at election41
ProposerThomas 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
RelationshipsParents: 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.
OtherInfoParticularly interested in disorders of the nervous system, publishing on vertigo, and diseases of the brain, spinal cord, and nerves.
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SourceSources:
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 Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/13932991
CodeNA1469
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1869/14Reynolds, Sir John Russell: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/2/856Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Russell Reynold [Fellow of the Royal Society]26 November 1888
NLB/13/57Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrisons & Sons2 June 1896
IM/Maull/003797Reynolds, John Russell1893
NLB/3/721Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to the Secretary of The Pasteur Fund, Mansion House24 September 1889
NLB/3/949Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster, [Royal Society]22 November 1889
MC/8/375Letter from J [John] Russell Reynolds, 38 Grosvenor Street, Grosvenor Square, to Dr [William] Sharpey, [Secretary of the Royal Society]7 June 1869
MC/8Volume 8 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1867-1869
AP/64/9Unpublished paper, 'On a perspective microscope' by George J [James] Burch1886-1887
ACS/1/3/4/4Letter 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
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