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Authorised form of nameReynolds; Sir; John Russell (1828 - 1896)
Dates1828 - 1896
NationalityBritish
Place of birthRomsey, Hampshire, England
Date of birth22 May 1828
Place of deathHis house in Grosvenor Street, London
Date of death29 May 1896
OccupationPhysician
ActivityEducation:
University College, London. MB (1851), MD (1852)
Career:
Began practising in Leeds; moved to London, taking over the house previously occupied by Marshal Hall (FRS 1832); Assistant Physician, Westminster Hospital (1857); Assistant Physician, University College Hospital (1859); Professor of Clinical Medicine, University College, London (1865); practised largely in nervous diseases
Honours:
Bt 1895
Memberships:
FRCP (1859; President 1893-1895)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election03/06/1869
RelationshipsGrandson of Henry Revell Reynolds (FRS 1781)
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
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