Dr. Joseph C. Keating, PhD, Litt. D (hon), FICC (hon)

Frederick Noël Lawrence Poynter, B.A., Ph.D., F.L.A., F.R.S.L., Hon. D. Litt. (California), Hon. M.D. (Kiel). 24 December 1908-11 March 1979.

Dr. Noel Poynter died at Brive in France after an illness of only a few weeks. For many years he was the veritable pivot about whom the study of medical history in Britain rotated. His creative powers were largely devoted to the exploration and display of the vast collections left by Sir Henry Wellcome, and it was during the years 1964-73 as Director of the Wellcome Institute of the History of ...

Dr Henry Rollin MD, FRCPsych, FRCPsych (Hon), FRCP

Henry Rollin, who died recently at the age of 102, was a medical polymath from a vanished age when psychiatrists had the time and opportunity to develop their skills by way of a wider variety of experience than is possible today. From 1948 until 1975, he was the Deputy Superintendent of Horton Hospital, Epsom, one of the largest mental hospitals in the country. Although he had himself been invo...

The Hon. Lady Darwin

Frederick L. Hoffman, LLD (Hon), 1865–1946

This biographical sketch on Frederick L. Hoffman corresponds to the historic text, The Classic: A Plan for a More Effective Federal and State Health Administration, available at DOI 10.1007/s11999-009-1000-x. The article can also be accessed on the American Journal of Public Health web site at (http://www.ajph.org/cgi/reprint/9/3/161-a).

Sir Ivan Magill KCVO, DSc, MB, BCh, BAO, FRCS, FFARCS (Hon), FFARCSI (Hon), DA, (1888-1986)

Ivan Whiteside Magill was born in Northern Ireland, and graduated from Queen’s University Belfast Medical School just before the Great War. In his lifetime anaesthetics developed from an adjunct of surgery to a recognised medical speciality. His personal contributions included greatly improving the apparatus and specific techniques, and most prominently, his endeavour to raise the status of the...