Person Florey; Howard Walter (1898 - 1968); Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston; pathologist and bacteriologist Florey Howard Walter pathologist and bacteriologist 1898 - 1968 Australian Male Adelaide, Australia 24 September 1898 Oxford 21/02/1968 19680221

Pathology Education: Kyre College, Adelaide; St Peter's Collegiate School, Adelaide; Adelaide University medical school. MB, BS (Adelaide); BSc (Oxford); PhD (1927, Cambridge) Career: Worked his passage to England as ship's surgeon to take up a Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford University (1921-1922); research work, at the invitation of Charles Sherrington, at Oxford (1923); medical officer to the third Oxford University Arctic Expedition; went to Department of Pathology, Cambridge University (1924); Rockefeller Scholar, studying microsurgical techniques (1925); Freedom Research Fellow, Lond on Hospital (1926); Huddersfield Lecturer in Pathology, University of Cambridge (1927); Fellow, Gonville and Caius College; Director of Medical Studies, Gonville and Caius; began to study lysozyme, discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming in 1922 (1929); Joseph Hunter Professor of Pathology, University of Sheffield (1932-1935); Professor of Pathology, University of Oxford (1935-1962); Fellow, Lincoln College, Oxford (1935), Honorary Fellow (1962); continued research on lysozyme, leading to the development of use of penicillin (by 1942); involved in the foundation of the Australian National University, Canberra, especially with the design and organization of the John Curtin School of Medical Research; Chancellor of the University (1965); Provost of Queen's College, Oxford and resigned Chair of Pathology (1962); suffered from angina and died of a heart attack Medals and prizes: Nobel Prize (Physiology or Medicine) 1945 jointly Honours: Kt 1944; Baron 1965; OM 1965 Son of Joseph Florey, shoemaker of Oxfordshire who emigrated 1885, and his second wife (married 1889) Bertha Mary Wadham (Australian). Married: 1) (1926) Ethel Mary Hayter, daughter of John Hayter Reed, Adelaide bank manager (she died 1966); one son and one daughter; 2) (1967) Dr Margaret Augusta Fremantle, daughter of 3rd Baron Cottesloe Royal Society roles: VP 1951-1953; PRS 1960-1965 Lectures: Croonian 1954 Fellow 20/03/1941 Sources: DNB; DSB Obituaries: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1971 vol 17 pp 255-302, plate, by E P Abraham References: Lord Adrian, 'Address at the Memorial Service for Lord Florey of Adelaide and Marston, OM, FRS, at Westminster Abbey on 28 March 1968' in NR 1968 vol 23 pp 29-30 Sir Arnold Burgen, review of Trevor I Williams, Howard Florey - Penicillin and After in NR 1990 vol 44 pp 136-137 Henry Harris, 'Howard Florey and the Development of Penicillin' in NR 1999 vol 53 pp 243-252, plate J Corden, 'Web of Science History' project in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 383-388 E Sidebottom, 'Penicillin revisited; from mould to miracle. 'The mould in Dr Florey's coat: the remarkable true story of the penicillin miracle' by E Lax in NR 2005 vol 59 pp 96-97 A F Bristow, T Barrowcliffe and D R Bangham, 'Standardization of biological medicines: the first hundred years, 1900-2000' in NR 2006 vol 60 pp 271-289 Notes: More info on web site: http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/nobel/florey.htm (print-out on file). ©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://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-13328 24 Sep 1898 - 21 Feb 1968 NA8056 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\AnneM Yes http://viaf.org/viaf/20520673 b5b0e80a-12fb-48b0-98f3-43ec2e4f0412