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Authorised form of name	Barcroft; Henry (1904 - 1998)
Dates	1904 - 1998
Nationality	British
Place of birth	Cambridge
Date of birth	18/10/1904
Place of death	London
Date of death	10/01/1998
Occupation	Physiologist
Activity	Education: Entered King's College, Cambridge, in 1923 with an exhibition, and was awarded a double first in the Tripos examinations, and research studentships that enabled him to study circulatory problems in animals for the next two years. Career: Spent three years at St Mary's Hospital, London, completing his medical qualification, but decided immediately to become a scientist rather than a clinician. Within the prestigious department of physiology at University College London, he resumed his earlier animal work, but was, crucially, exposed to colleagues in other departments who were extending the application of scientific investigations to human clinical problems. Many of these colleagues subsequently assumed great importance in British medicine. Lecturer in Physiology, University College London 1932-35; Dunville Professor of Physiology, Queen's University, Belfast 1935-48, where it was the specific hope and expectation of the university that his appointment would stimulate research in the Faculty of Medicine. It did so. Professor of Physiology, St Thomas's Hospital Medical School 1948-71 (Emeritus); Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Monographs of he Physiological Society.
Membership category	Fellow
Date of election	19/03/1953
Age at election	48
Relationships	Married 1933 Dr Bridget Ramsey died 1990; three sons, one daughter. Son of Sir Joseph Barcroft (1872-1947) FRS 1910, a brilliant and charismatic Cambridge physiologist from an Irish Quaker background. His maternal grandfather, Sir Robert Ball, had been Astronomer Royal of Ireland and Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge.
Source	Obituaries: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2000 vol 46 pp 1-17, plate, by A D M Greenfield and I C Roddie
Code	NA3637

Archives associated with this Fellow

RefNo	Title	Date
GLB/65/21/4	Brown to Henry Barcroft, Sherrington School of Physiology, St Thomas's Hospital	21 February 1961
GLB/65/21/3	Henry Barcroft, Sherrington School of Physiology, St Thomas's Hospital to Brown	20 February 1961
GLB/65/21/15	Henry Barcroft, Sherrington School of Physiology, St Thomas's Hospital to Brown	21 April 1962
GLB/65/22/64	Henry Barcroft, Highgate, London to Brown	6 August 1969
GLB/65/22/65	Brown's secretary to Henry Barcroft, Highgate, London	14 August 1969
GLB/19/1/60	Henry Barcroft, Sherrington School of Physiology, St Thomas' Hospital, London to Brown	4 February 1960
GLB/65/21/13	Henry Barcroft, Sherrington School of Physiology, St Thomas's Hospital to Brown	2 April 1962
GLB/65/22/66	Henry Barcroft, Highgate, London to Brown's secretary, Joan Watson	17 August 1969
NLB/65/264	Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir John Rose Bradford, KCMG, FRS	1 October 1923
PB/1/33/2	Correspondence concerning the Copley Medal of the Royal Society	1956
EC/1953/03	Barcroft, Henry: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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