Record

Authorised form of nameLedingham; Sir; John Charles Grant (1875 - 1944)
Dates1875 - 1944
NationalityBritish
Place of birthBoyndie, Banffshire, Scotland
Date of birth19 May 1875
Place of deathLondon
Date of death04/10/1944
ActivityEducation:
DSc; MA; MB; ChB
Honours:
CMG 1918; Kt 1937
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election12/05/1921
SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1945-1948 vol 5 pp 325-340, plate, by S P Bedson
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/301066208
Royal Society codeNA6036
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
IM/002676Ledingham, Sir John Charles Grantnd
MS/914/2/32Journal cutting, 'Discussion on the present position of pathology and bacteriology...', by John Charles Grant Ledingham and others 26 September 1925
NLB/36/849Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to John Charles Grant Ledingham2 January 1908
RR/42/68Referee's report by John Charles Grant Ledingham, on a paper 'Cellular individuality in the higher animals, with special reference to the individuality of the red blood corpuscle. (II)' by Charles ToddSeptember 1930
RR/27/30Referee's report by John Charles Grant Ledingham, on a paper 'On blood-platelets: their behaviour in “vitamin A” deficiency and after “radiation,” and their relation to bacterial infections' by W Cramer, A H Drew and J C MottramApril 1922
RR/27/54Referee's report by John Charles Grant Ledingham, on a paper 'Further observations on a bacteriolytic element found in tissues and secretions' by Alexander Fleming and A D AllisonJune 1922
RR/32/16Referee's report by John Charles Grant Ledingham, on a paper 'Studies on the nature of the immunity reaction. Part III - The possible eugynic value of pneumococcal anitgen' by Richard R ArmstrongMay 1925
RR/44/6Referee's report by John Charles Grant Ledingham, on a paper 'Investigations on Mediterranean kala azar. Parts I - V' by Saul Adler and O Theodor11 May 1931
RR/40/49Referee's report by John Charles Grant Ledingham, on an unnamed paper by Eric Ponder May 1930
RR/40/48Referee's report by John Charles Grant Ledingham, on a paper 'The effect of variations in the cell content of hœmolytic systems' by Eric Ponder May 1930
RR/37/134Referee's report by John Charles Grant Ledingham, on a paper 'Hæmolysis by brilliant-green and serum' by Eric PonderJuly 1928
RR/32/11Referee's report by John Charles Grant Ledingham, on a paper 'Studies on the nature of the immunity reaction. Part I - An experimental study of pneumococcal immunity' by Richard R ArmstrongMay 1925
RR/42/7Referee's report by John Charles Grant Ledingham, on a paper 'The kinetics of haemolysis in amboceptor-complement systems' by Eric PonderJune 1931
RR/38/110Referee's report by John Charles Grant Ledingham, on a paper 'The vital staining of normal and malignant cells.-II. The staining of malignant tumours with trypan blue' by Reginald James LudfordJanuary 1929
RR/42/8Second referee's report by John Charles Grant Ledingham, on a paper 'The kinetics of haemolysis in amboceptor-complement systems' by Eric PonderOctober 1931
RR/32/13Referee's report by John Charles Grant Ledingham, on a paper 'Studies on the nature of the immunity reaction. Part II. - A comparison of the antigenic properties of sensitised and raw pneumococcal vaccines' by Richard R ArmstrongMay 1925
RR/44/38Referee's report by John Charles Grant Ledingham, on a paper 'The causative organism in infectious ectromelia' by Joseph Edwin BarnardOctober 1931
RR/46/56Second referee's report by John Charles Grant Ledingham, on a paper 'The photodynamic action of methylene blue on bacteriophage' by J R Perdrau and Charles Todd[November 1932]
RR/46/57Referee's report by John Charles Grant Ledingham, on a paper 'The photodynamic action of methylene blue on certain viruses' by J R Perdrau and Charles Todd[November 1932]
RR/48/24Referee's report by John Charles Grant Ledingham, on a paper 'A soluble specific substance in spirochaetes' by Edward Hindle and Philip Bruce White[December 1933]
RR/47/115Second referee's report by John Charles Grant Ledingham, on a paper 'The morphology and cytology of bacterium malvacearum, E. F. S. Part II.—Reproduction and cell-fusion' by R H StoughtonMarch 1932
RR/52/9Referee's report by John Charles Grant Ledingham, on a paper 'Investigation on Mediterranean kala azar VIII—Further observations on Mediterranean sandflies' by Saul Adler and O TheodorJuly 1934
RR/47/114Referee's report by John Charles Grant Ledingham, on a paper 'The morphology and cytology of bacterium malvacearum, E. F. S. Part II.—Reproduction and cell-fusion' by R H StoughtonFebruary 1932
RR/52/5Referee's report by John Charles Grant Ledingham, on a paper 'Investigation on Mediterranean kala azar X—A note on Trypanosoma platydactyli and Leishmania tarentolae' by Saul Adler and O TheodorJuly 1934
RR/49/55Referee's report by John Charles Grant Ledingham, on a paper 'Inflammation in caterpillars of Lepidoptera' by Gordon Roy Cameron[December 1933]
RR/52/11Referee's report by John Charles Grant Ledingham, on a paper 'Investigations on Mediterranean kala azar VII—Further observations on canine visceral leishmaniasis' by Saul Adler and O TheodorJuly 1934
RR/53/24Referee's report by John Charles Grant Ledingham, on a paper 'On the derivation of asporogenous variants of a spore-forming organism I and II' by M I Christian[June 1934]
RR/52/7Referee's report by John Charles Grant Ledingham, on a paper 'Investigations on Mediterranean kala azar IX—Feeding experiment with phlebotomus perniciosus and other species on animals infected with leishmania infantum' by Saul Adler and O TheodorJuly 1934
RR/55/25Referee's report by John Charles Grant Ledingham, on a paper 'The relationship between the serological reactions and the infectivity of potato virus 'X'' by Frederick Charles BawdenJune 1935
RR/38/111Referee's report by John Charles Grant Ledingham, on a paper 'The vital staining of normal and malignant cells. I.-Vital staining with trypan blue, and the cytoplasmic inclusions of liver and kidney cells' by Reginald James LudfordJune 1928
RR/54/21Referee's report by John Charles Grant Ledingham, on a paper 'The mechanism of the bactericidal action of radioactive radiations I & II' by D E Lea, R B Haines and Charles Alfred CoulsonDecember 1935
RR/58/47Referee's report by John Charles Grant Ledingham, on a paper 'A new group of filterable organisms' by Patrick Playfair Laidlaw and William Joseph ElfordMarch 1936
RR/63/84Referee's report by John Charles Grant Ledingham, on a paper 'The potato virus "X": Its strains and reactions' by Redcliffe Nathan Salaman17 December 1937
NLB/67/544Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Charles Grant] Ledingham, CMG, FRS20 January 1925
NLB/65/597Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir John [Rose] Bradford, FRS26 November 1923
NLB/72/394Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Charles Grant] Ledingham, CMG, FRS30 September 1929
NLB/68/251Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir John Rose Bradford, KCMG, FRS5 June 1925
NLB/69/759Copy letter from [James Hopwood Jeans,] Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [John Charles Grant] Ledingham, FRS6 October 1926
NLB/68/357Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir John Rose Bradford, KCMG, FRS24 June 1925
NLB/69/438Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [John Charles Grant] Ledingham, FRS14 April 1926
NLB/69/922Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, 8 Queen Square, Bloombury, WC117 November 1926
NLB/72/236Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [John Charles Grant] Ledingham, FRS5 June 1929
NLB/69/919Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [John Charles Grant] Ledingham, C.M.G., FRS17 November 1926
NLB/71/656Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [John Charles Grant] Ledingham, C.M.G., FRS26 September 1928
NLB/73/82Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [John Charles Grant] Ledingham, FRS22 November 1930
EC/1921/15Ledingham, Sir John Charles Grant: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/57/28Referee's report by John Charles Grant Ledingham, on a paper 'Cellular individuality in the higher animals, with special reference to the individuality of the red blood corpuscle—III' by Charles Todd[March 1935]
NLB/68/84Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir John Rose Bradford, KCMG, FRS9 May 1925
NLB/69/614Copy letter from [James Hopwood Jeans,] Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [John Charles Grant] Ledingham, FRS24 June 1926
NLB/37/100Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor J [John] Rose Bradford, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society27 January 1908
RR/28/132Referee's report by John Charles Grant Ledingham, on a paper 'A comparison of the activities antiseptics on bacteria and on leucocytes' by Alexander Fleming[December 1923]
NLB/66/419Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [John Charles Grant] Ledingham, FRS6 May 1924
NLB/68/746Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [William Cecil Dampier] Wetham Esq., FRS; also circulated to Sir James [Colquhoun] Irvine; Sir Thomas Lewis; Professor [John Charles Grant] Ledingham; Professor [James Peter] Hill; Professor [Edmund Johnston] Garwood; Professor [Frederick Alexander] Lindemann; [John Edensor] Littlewood Esq.; Sir [Robert] Robertson29 October 1925
NLB/69/602Copy letter from [James Hopwood Jeans], Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [John Charles Grant] Ledingham, FRS17 June 1926
P/0174Portrait of Ledingham, Sir John Charles Grant
RR/35/74Referee's report by John Charles Grant Ledingham, on a paper 'Immunological and serological studies on the viruses of fowl-pox and vaccinia' by G Marshall FindlayDecember 1927
RR/46/52Referee's report by John Charles Grant Ledingham, on a paper 'The relationship of micro-organisms to the decay of stone' by Sydney G Paine, Frank V Linggood, Freda Schimmer and Thomas C Thrupp[August 1932]
RR/49/44Referee's report by John Charles Grant Ledingham, on a paper 'The antiseptic properties of further amino derivatives of styryl and anil quinoline' by Carl Hamilton Browning, Julius Berend Cohen, K E Cooper, S Ellingworth and R Gulbransen[November 1933]
RR/56/4Referee's report by John Charles Grant Ledingham, on a paper 'On the effect of pure ozone on bacteria' by R B Haines[March 1935]
RR/60/6Referee's report by John Charles Grant Ledingham, on a paper 'The life history of some marine plankton diatoms' by F Gross1936
RR/43/100Referee's report by John Charles Grant Ledingham, on a paper 'The vital staining of normal and malignant cells. IV. - A comparison of the vital staining of the parenchyma cells of the liver with acid and basic dyes' by Reginald James Ludford30 March 1931
RR/27/124Referee's report by John Charles Grant Ledingham on a paper 'The action of 'peptone' on blood and immunity thereto' by J W Pickering and J A HewittNovember 1922
RR/36/6Referee's report by John Charles Grant Ledingham, on a paper 'Cytological studies on the viruses of fowl-pox and vaccinia' by Reginald James Ludford[December 1927]
RR/40/47Referee's report by John Charles Grant Ledingham, on a paper 'The use of nth order equations to describe the action of simple hoemolysins' by Eric Ponder and James Franklin YeagerMay 1930
RR/51/88Referee's report by John Charles Grant Ledingham, on a paper 'Investigations of the mechanism of the transmission of plant viruses by insect vectors.— I' by Harold Haydon Storey[May 1933]
RR/46/55Referee's report by John Charles Grant Ledingham, on a paper 'The photodynamic action of methylene blue on bacteriophage' by J R Perdrau and Charles Todd[July 1932]
MC/38Volume 38 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1924
MC/38/62Letter from [John Charles Grant] Ledingham, The Lister Institute, Chelsea Gardens, London, to [William Bate] Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society3 May 1924
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