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Authorised form of nameHead; Sir; Henry (1861 - 1940)
Dates1861 - 1940
NationalityBritish
Place of birthStamford Hill, Stoke Newington, London, England
Date of birth04 August 1861
Place of deathReading, Berkshire
Date of death08/10/1940
ActivityEducation:
Charterhouse, Surrey; Cambridge University. MA
Honours:
Kt 1927
Memberships:
MRCP; MRCS
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election01/06/1899
RSActivityRoyal Society roles:
VP 1916-1917
Medals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1908
Lectures:
Croonian 1921
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; Charterhouse Miscellany
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1939-1941 vol 3 pp 665-689, plate, by Gordon Holmes
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/14335236
CodeNA2914
Archives associated with this Fellow
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IM/002006Head, Sir Henrynd
EC/1899/08Head, Sir Henry: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MM/16/108Letter from Charles S Sherrington, Ocford, to Henry Head23 September 1918
RR/17/132Referee's report by Henry Head, on a paper 'The time taken in passing the synapse int he spinal cord of the frog' by Florence Buchanan[April 1907]
NLB/19/373Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons4 September 1899
NLB/20/88Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons29 January 1900
NLB/54/68Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Henry] Head, Vice President of the Royal Society 1 February 1917
NLB/35/451Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Henry Head, Fellow of the Royal Society3 June 1907
NLB/62/917Copy letter from [Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]; to the Editor of 'The Morning Post'7 June 1922
NLB/36/542Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Henry Head, Fellow of the Royal Society12 November 1907
NLB/39/10Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr Henry Head, Fellow of the Royal Society13 November 1908
NLB/38/769Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Henry Head, Fellow of the Royal Society3 November 1908
NLB/47/651Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr Henry Head FRS7 March 1913
NLB/51/156Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Dr Henry Head FRS22 December 1914
NLB/52/416Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. Henry Head, FRS2 December 1915
NLB/54/856Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Henry] Head, Vice President of the Royal Society22 October 1917
RR/17/141Referee's report by Henry Head, on a paper 'Cases of colour-blindness, No. VI to No. XVIII, together with eleven selected examples of normal colour sensations' by George James Burch[June 1907]
NLB/54/702Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. Henry Head, Vice President of the Royal Society13 August 1917
NLB/54/133Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Henry] Head, Vice President of the Royal Society14 February 1917
NLB/54/125Copy letter from [Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]; to the Honorary Secretary of the Committee for Promoting an Intellectual Entente among the Allied and Friendly Countries13 February 1917
NLB/54/399Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. Henry Head, Vice President of the Royal Society2 May 1917
NLB/54/588Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. Henry Head, Vice President of the Royal Society26 June 1917
NLB/54/657Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. Henry Head, Vice President of the Royal Society17 July 1917
NLB/54/651Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Henry] Head, Vice President of the Royal Society13 July 1917
RR/27/60Referee's report by Henry Head, on a paper 'The influence of various conditions on the time relations of tendon reflexes in the human subject' by Frederick Golla and Joseph HettwerJune 1922
NLB/61/124Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. Henry Head, FRS18 May 1921
NLB/60/327Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Henry] Head, FRS20 January 1921
RR/31/50Referee's report by Henry Head, on a paper 'The problem of treatment of spastic paralysis. An experimental and clinical study' by [Norman] D Royle[February 1924]
NLB/58/496Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Henry] Head, FRS13 May 1920
NLB/60/525Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. Henry Head, FRS18 February 1921
NLB/61/288Copy letter from Charles Scott Sherrington, President of the Royal Society; to Dr. Henry Head, FRS16 June 1921
NLB/60/910Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. Henry Head, FRS26 April 1921
NLB/61/430Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Henry] Head, FRS7 July 1921
RR/25/7Referee's report by Henry Head, on a paper 'Brevity, frequency of rhythm, and amount of reflex nervous discharge, as indicated by reflex contraction' by N B Dreyer and Charles Scott Sherrington12 June 1918
NLB/63/32Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. Henry Head, FRS15 June 1922
NLB/63/65Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Dr. Henry Head, FRS20 June 1922
IM/002005Head, Sir Henry1922
NLB/65/588Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Henry] Head, FRS23 November 1923
NLB/67/621Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr Henry Head, FRS2 February 1925
NLB/66/370Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. Henry Head, FRS28 April 1924
RR/30/84Referee's report by Henry Head, on a paper 'The postural influence of the sympathetic nervous system' by John I Hunter31 January 1924
RR/16/311Referee's report by Henry Head, on a paper 'An investigation into the structure of the lumbo-sacral-coccygeal cord of the macaque monkey (macacus sinicus)' by Mabel Purefoy FitzgeraldNovember 1905
NLB/65/861Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir John Rose Bradford, KCMG, FRS18 January 1924
MDA/C/4/2Letters on nominations to deliver the Croonian Lecture1921-1925
NLB/36/297Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Henry Head, Fellow of the Royal Society8 October 1907
NLB/54New Letter Book volume 54, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration10 January 1917-2 November 1917
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