Person Starling; Ernest Henry (1866 - 1927); physiologist Starling Ernest Henry physiologist 1866 - 1927 British Male Barnsbury Square, North London, England 17 April 1866 18660417 Steamship Ariguani, Kingston harbour, Jamaica, West Indies 02/05/1927 19270502

Physiologist Cardiology Endocrinology Physiology Education: MD King's College School, London Career: Medical student at Guy's Hospital, London (1882); found himself more attracted to physiology which led him to spend a long vacation in Wilhelm Kühne's laboratory in Heidelberg, studying the mechanisms of lymph formation, which eventually led to his decision to pursue physiology in earnest; published nine papers on lymph and capillary function (1893-1897) demonstrating processes that enabled physicians to understand conditions such as edema; worked in collaboration with William Maddock Bayliss (FRS 1903) and co-published on the electrical activity of the heart and on peristalsis; appointed professor at University College Lonon (1899); Bayliss and Starling made newspaper headlines when involved in the Brown Dog affair, a controversy relating to vivisection (1903-1910); investigated with Bayliss, pancreatic secretion, which at that time was believed to be entirely under nervous control, and established that the pancreas secreted, whenever food or acid were put into the duodenum, due to a blood-borne stimulus; his Law of the Heart investigations examined how the heart increased its output in response to more blood entering the organ, which increases the size of the chambers during filling (1910-1912); was involved in research into poison gases (1914–1918); resigned from the army enabling him to undertake work that utilised his skill, as chairman of the Royal Society Food (War) Committee, where he was instrumental in setting up rationing that provided required calories and nutritional supplements (1917); returned to University College London (1918); became unwell (1926–7)and decided to take a voyage to warmer climates; died on board the steamship Ariguani as it was entering harbour at Kingston, Jamaica (1927). Memberships: FRCP Honours: CMG Parents: Matthew Henry Starling, clerk to the crown, Bombay, and Ellen Mathilda, daughter of Henry George Watkins, artist and engraver, of Islington. Spouse: Florence Amelia (b. 1860/61), daughter of Sir Edward Henry Sieveking, widow of Leonard Charles Wooldridge (21 December 1891). Children: One son and three daughters. Great grand-children: Boris Starling (born 1969) and Belinda Starling (1972–2006), writers. Brother in law: William Maddock Bayliss (FRS 1903) His main topics of investigation were the secretion of lymph and other body fluids, the discovery of secretin, and the laws governing the activity of the heart. He established endoctrionolgy as a new biological subject. Comittees: Royal Society Food (War) Committee 1917 Medals and prizes: Royal Medal 1913 Lectures: Croonian 1904 (jointly) and 1905 Appointed Foulerton research professor of the Royal Society 1922 Fellow 01/06/1899 33 Frederick William Pavy; Frederick Walker Mott; Arthur Sheridan Lea; Philip Henry Pye-Smith; Edward Emmanuel Klein; Charles Scott Sherrington William Dobinson Halliburton; Edward Albert Schafer; Francis Gotch; John Scott Haldane; John Scott Burdon Sanderson; Walter Holbrook Gaskell Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB Obituaries: Proc Roy Soc Series B 1928 vol 102 pp xvii-xxvii, plate, signed by C J M References: W van der Kloot, 'Ernest Starling's analysis of the energy balance of the German people during the blockade, 1914-19' in NR 2003 vol 7 pp 185-193 W van der Kloot, 'April 1915: Five Future Nobel Prize-Winners Inaugurate Weapons Of Mass Destruction And The Academic-Industrial-Military Complex' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 149-160 Starling E H, IM Maull 004371.jpg ©The Royal Society 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 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspa.1928.0001 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/action/doSearch?ContribAuthorRaw=Starling%2C+Ernest+Henry RCN 16016 RCN 20597 RCN 20599 RCN 20598 RCN 16017 17 Apr 1866 - 2 May 1927 The past Fellows entries are under continuous revision. If you have queries or additional information to contribute, please contact Library@royalsociety.org. Content in external sources is not controlled by the Royal Society and historical sources may include content that is now unacceptable. Reviewed on 13/03/2024 as part of the Name Authority Project update. NA7857 21/11/2001 Andyg Martind 08/09/2025 RS_NET\VirginiaM Yes http://viaf.org/viaf/12344700 faa2ef45-0df3-4f99-b7f1-727bcea43493