| Authorised form of name | Stephens; John William Watson (1865 - 1946); parasitologist and expert on tropical diseases |
| Dates | 1865 - 1946 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Holcwm, Ferryside, Carmarthenshire, Wales |
| Date of birth | 02 March 1865 |
| Place of death | Holcwm, Ferryside, Carmarthenshire, Wales |
| Date of death | 17/05/1946 |
| Occupation | parasitologist and expert on tropical diseases |
| Research field | Parasitic diseases |
| Tropical diseases |
| Parasitology |
| Activity | Education:
Preparatory school in Ferryside; Christ College, Brecon; MD (Camb); BA; DPH
Career:
Sir Trevor Lawrence research studentship in pathology and bacteriology at St Bartholomew’s Hospital (1895-1886); John Lucas Walker research studentship in pathology at Cambridge (1897); Assistant bacteriologist to the government of India (1897-8); Walter Myers Lecturer in Tropical Medicine at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (1903-1913); Alfred Jones Professor of Tropical Medicine, succeeding Sir Ronald Ross (FRS 1901) (1913-1928); malaria consultant with Royal Army Medical Corps (1914-1918); member of the Colonial Medical Research Committee (1927); retired to Holcwm, Ferryside.
Memberships:
Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (President 1927–1928).
Awards/Medals:
Manson Medal 1935 |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 13/05/1920 |
| Age at election | 55 |
| Proposer | George Henry Falkiner Nuttall; George Stuart Graham-Smith; Arthur Everett Shipley; John Stanley Gardiner; Frederick William Andrewes; Charles James Martin; Robert Newstead |
| Benjamin Moore; John George Adami; John Smyth Macdonald; Charles Scott Sherrington; William Boog Leishman; James Lorrain Smith |
| Royal Society activity | Member of the Royal Society malaria commission in Africa and India (1898-192) |
| Relationships | Parents: John Stephens, barrister, and Martha, daughter of Captain David Davies RM, of Transmawr, Carmarthenshire.
Spouse: Mary Sophie, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel E. C. C. Sandys (16 April 1901).
Children: John and David. |
| Published works | RCN 18603
RCN 18618
RCN 19311
RCN 18633
RCN 18626
RCN 18605
RCN 18598
RCN 18615
RCN 18628
RCN 18632
RCN 18602
RCN 18597
RCN 18616
RCN 18604
RCN 18629
RCN 18601
RCN 18606
RCN 18631
RCN 18614
RCN 18625
RCN 18623
RCN 18627
RCN 18607
RCN 18624
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RCN 18617 |
| General context | Described Plasmodium ovale; carried out pioneering work on sleeping sickness. |
| Royal Society Obituary or Memoir | Click to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices) |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1945-1948 vol 5 pp 525-540, plate, by S R Christophers |
| Royal Society code | NA1740 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1920/15 | Stephens, John William Watson: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/004383 | Stephens, John William Watson | nd |
| NLB/19/383 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Professor Edwin Ray Lankester, Fellow of the Royal Society | 9 September 1899 |
| NLB/19/158 | Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Sir Michael Foster, Secretary, Royal Society | 30 June 1899 |
| NLB/17/336 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Joseph Lister, President, Royal Society | 13 October 1898 |
| NLB/17/230 | Copy letter from Michael Foster, to the Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office, S.W. | 12 September 1898 |
| NLB/18/294 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to C P Lucas, Assistant under Secretary of State, Colonial Office | 20 February 1899 |
| NLB/17/537 | Copy telegram from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr John William Watson Stephens, [Fellow of the Royal Society], 7 Quay Street | [15 November 1898] |
| NLB/17/643 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr John William Watson Stephens, [Fellow of the Royal Society], Pathological Laboratory, Cambridge | 29 November 1898 |
| NLB/17/635 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to the Crown Agents for the Colonies, Downing Street, S.W. | 29 November 1898 |
| NLB/17/578 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to C P Lucas, Colonial Office, S.W. | 21 November 1898 |
| NLB/17/637 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to C P Lucas, Colonial Office | 29 November 1898 |
| NLB/17/703 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Samuel Rickard Christophers, [Fellow of the Royal Society], Euston Hotel | 9 December 1898 |
| NLB/19/295 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Michael Foster, [Fellow of the Royal Society] | 28 July 1899 |
| NLB/19/270 | Copy letter from Robert William Harrison, to Sir John Kirk, Fellow of the Royal Society | 24 July 1899 |
| NLB/19/84 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to C P Lucas, Colonial Office, Downing Street, S.W. | 16 June 1899 |
| NLB/19/267 | Copy letter from Robert William Harrison, to Sir Michael Foster, Secretary, Royal Society | 24 July 1899 |
| NLB/19/647 | Copy telegram from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr John William Watson Stephens, [Fellow of the Royal Society], care of Woodhead, Pathological Laboratory, Cambridge | [16 November 1899] |
| NLB/19/274 | Copy letter from Robert William Harrison, to Mr Lucas, Colonial Office | 25 July 1899 |
| NLB/20/16 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to C P Lucas, Colonial Office | 15 January 1900 |
| NLB/19/620 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Edwin Ray Lankester, Fellow of the Royal Society | 10 November 1899 |
| NLB/19/591 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir John Kirk, Fellow of the Royal Society | 7 November 1899 |
| NLB/19/572 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Thomas Clifford Allbutt, Fellow of the Royal Society | 2 November 1899 |
| NLB/19/725 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to the Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office, S.W. | 4 December 1899 |
| NLB/19/638 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, Fellow of the Royal Society | 15 November 1899 |
| NLB/20/719 | Copy letter from Michael Foster to Dr John William Watson Stephens and [Samuel Rickard] Christophers, [Fellows of the Royal Society | 21 June 1900 |
| NLB/21/692 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr John William Watson Stephens, [Fellow of the Royal Society], 7 Quay Street, Camarthan | 10 January 1901 |
| NLB/23/1/393 | Copy letter from Sir Michael Foster, to John William Watson Stephens and Samuel Rickard Christophers, [Fellows of the Royal Society] | 6 November 1901 |
| NLB/25/151 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Dr John William Watson Stephens, [Fellow of the Royal Society], Camarthen | 30 August 1902 |
| NLB/24/138 | Copy letter from Sir Michael Foster, to The Right Honorable J Chamberlain MP, H M Secretary of State for the Colonies | 10 March 1902 |
| NLB/25/333 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr John William Watson Stephens, [Fellow of the Royal Society], School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool | 18 October 1902 |
| NLB/25/375 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr John William Watson Stephens, [Fellow of the Royal Society] | 24 October 1902 |
| NLB/25/754 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr John William Watson Stephens, [Fellow of the Royal Society] | 19 December 1902 |
| NLB/26/275 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to, Dr John William Watson Stephens, School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool | 20 February 1903 |
| NLB/26/274 | Copy letter from Sir Michael Foster to, C P Lucas | 20 February 1903 |
| NLB/26/311 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to, Dr [John William Watson] Stephens, [Fellow of the Royal Society] | 27 February 1903 |
| NLB/27/443 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr John William Watson Stephens, [Fellow of the Royal Society] | 26 September 1903 |
| NLB/34/874 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr John William Watson Stephens, [Fellow of the Royal Society], Johnston Tropical Laboratory, University of Liverpool | 20 March 1907 |
| NLB/43/316 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr [John William Watson] Stephens, [Fellow of the Royal Society] | 9 December 1910 |
| NLB/43/375 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr [John William Watson] Stephens, [Fellow of the Royal Society] | 19 December 1910 |
| NLB/47/571 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr J [John] W [William] W [Watson] Stephens, School of Tropical Medicine, University of Liverpool | 25 February 1913 |
| NLB/48/462 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr [John William Watson] Stephens, School of Tropical Medicine, The University, Liverpool | 7 July 1913 |
| MC/34/98 | Letter from [William Abbott] Herdman, Liverpool, to [William Bate] Hardy, [Royal Society] | 13 February 1919 |
| NLB/63/792 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William Watson] Stephens, FRS | 18 December 1922 |
| NLB/64/132 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William Watson] Stephens, FRS | 6 February 1923 |
| NLB/57/881 | Copy letter from unknown correspondent; to unknown correspondent | 26 February 1920 |
| NLB/18/274 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr J W W Stephens | 16 February 1899 |
| NLB/24/148 | Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Dr [Samuel Rickard] Christophers, [Fellow of the Royal Society] | 10 March 1902 |
| NLB/25/814 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr John William Watson Stephens, [Fellow of the Royal Society], School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool | 6 January 1903 |
| NLB/28/11 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr John William Watson Stephens, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine | 17 December 1903 |
| NLB/19/290 | Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Dr C W Daniels, Blantyre, British Central Africa | 28 July 1899 |
| NLB/19/289 | Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Dr James William Watson Stephens and Dr Samuel Rickard Christophers, [Fellows of the Royal Society], Blantyre, British Central Africa | 28 July 1899 |
| NLB/20/114 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir John Kirk, Professor Edwin Ray Lankester, Professor Thomas Clifford Allbutt, Sir John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, Fellows of the Royal Society and members of the Malaria Committee | 5 February 1900 |
| NLB/23/1/573 | Copy letter from Michael Foster and copy memorandum from the Malaria Committee, to [John William Waton] Stephens and [Samuel Rickard] Christophers, [Fellows of the Royal Society] | 2 December 1901 |
| MC/36 | Volume 36 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1922 |
| MC/36/95 | Letter from [John William Watson] Stephens, The Incorporated Liverpool School of Tropical Mdecine, University of Liverpool, to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society | 15 December 1922 |