Person Mott; Sir; Frederick Walker (1853 - 1926); neuropathologist and eugenicist Mott Frederick Walker Sir neuropathologist and eugenicist 1853 - 1926 British Male Brighton, Sussex, England 23 October 1853 18531023 Birmingham General Hospital, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England 08/06/1926 19260608

neuropathologist Neurology Endocrinology Biochemistry Medicine Education: MB, BSc (Lond) (1881); MD (Lond) (1886) Career: Worked in Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer’s (FRS 1878) laboratory (1880-82); assistant professor of physiology at Liverpool University (1883); lecturer on physiology at Charing Cross Hospital medical school (1884-1895), where he subsequently became a lecturer on pathology (1900-03); assistant physician (1890); physician (1903); lecturer on medicine (1907-13); and finally, consultant physician (1913); the research he is known for was achieved in his capacity as pathologist to the London County Council Asylums, working in the laboratory at Clay bury (1895-1916), and at the Maudsley Hospital (1923); turned his attention to treating shell-shock as lieutenant-colonel attached to the 4th London General Hospital (1914-1918); retired from his London County Council post (1923) and continued to lecture and research at the Maudsley Hospital and Birmingham University until his death; died in hospital of a cerebral haemorrhage (1926). Honours: KBE 1919 Awards/medals: Stewart prize (1903) Bowman lecturer to the Ophthalmological Society (1904) Fullerian lecturer (1904) Oliver-Sharpey lecturer (1910) Huxley lecturer at Charing Cross Hospital (1910) Fothergill gold medal (1911) Lettsomian lecturer (1916) Moxon gold medal (1919) Morrison lecturer (1921) Harveian orator (1925) Memberships: FRCP (1892) Eugenics Society (Council 1911) Society of English Singers (1923) Royal Medico-Psychological Association (1926) Parents: Henry Mott, of Brighton, Sussex, who was of Huguenot descent, and Caroline, daughter of William Fuller, of Pulborough, Sussex. Spouse: Georgina Alexandra, daughter of George Thomas Soley, shipowner, of Liverpool (1885). Children: Four daughters. Noted for his work on shell-shock. Owing to his research, the nervous system disease called 'general paralysis of the insane' was in fact a manifestation of syphillis and associated with the presence of the specific spirochaete. He demonstrated the close relation between the nervous system and the sexual organs manifested in dementia praecox, as well as the association of deficient mental condition with degeneration of the thyroid and other endocrine organs. Mott was a council member of the Eugenics Society in 1911. He believed that mental illness was inherited due to “degenerate family lines” that worsened until dying out, though his reference cases and statistics were interrogated by other eugenicists. Croonian lecturer (1900) He wrote a report on his work concerning sleeping sickness, entitled Histological Observations on Sleeping Sickness and other Trypanosome Infections, which was published as no. 7 of the Reports of the Sleeping Sickness Commission of the Royal Society in December 1906. Fellow 04/06/1896 43 Walter Holbrook Gaskell; William Richard Gowers; Henry Charlton Bastian; John Hughlings Jackson; David Ferrier; Philip Henry Pye-Smith; Edward Emanuel Klein; Sydney Ringer; Thomas Lauder Brunton William Dobinsn Halliburton; Edward Albert Schafer; John Gray McKendrick; Charles Scott Sherrington; Augustus Desire Waller; Francis Gotch; Victor Alexander Haden Horsley; Sidney Harris CoxMartin; John Rose Bradford; John Newport Langley Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB Obituaries: Proc Roy Soc Series B 1926 vol 100 pp xxviii-xxx, plate, signed by E S-S References: Neil Morgan, 'William Dobinson Halliburton, FRS (1860-1931). Pioneer of British Biochemistry?' in NR 1983-84 vol 38 pp 129-145 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/action/doSearch?ContribAuthorRaw=Mott%2C+Frederick+Walker RCN 18664 RCN 18691 23 Oct 1853 - 8 Jun 1926 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 27/02/2024 as part of the Name Authority Project update. NA8262 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 27/02/2024 RS_NET\VidaM Yes d8bd8ba8-50ac-49e9-93ec-0d4cef4b4db0