| 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. |
| Sources | 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 |
| Royal Society code | NA3637 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| Reference number | 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 | |