Person Barcroft; Henry (1904 - 1998) Barcroft Henry 1904 - 1998 British Male Cambridge 18/10/1904 19041018 London 10/01/1998 19980110

Physiologist 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. 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. Fellow 19/03/1953 48 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 International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 18 Oct 1904 - 10 Jan 1998 NA3637 21/11/2001 Andyg pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes 4e7037c2-7e75-44ef-b294-6a0739bee9e8