Sir Charles Wright— 1887 – 1975

Personal recollections of Sir Almroth Wright and Sir Alexander Fleming.

THE youngest, but one, of eight children of an Ayrshire farmer, Alexander Fleming was born at Lochfield Farm, near Darvel, on 6th August, 1881. He received his first schooling at Loudoun Moor School and at the age of 10 he went to the village school at Darvel; two years later he continued his education at Kilmarnock Academy. At 14 years of age he joined an elder brother in London and attended t...

Julian Sorell Huxley 22 June 1887- 14 February 1975.

A visit to Sir Charles Sherrington.

GOING through old papers recently I came upon some notes recording a visit I had paid to Sir Charles Sherrington on 7 August 1945 at the Hope Nursing Home in Cambridge where he then lived.' He was eighty-eight and already seriously crippled by arthritis but very alert in mind and ready to talk. Indeed he remained so until his death in 1952. The day before, I had been in London fox an interview ...

The poetry of Sir Charles Sherrington.

The title-poem in Sherrington’s The Assaying of Brabantius (1925) is a substantial piece taking up about three-sevenths of the volume. A third of the remaining poems ascertainably belong to the period of the First World War, but this visionary allegory with a quasi-mediaeval setting offers itself as a relatively early work. Its theme of the sinner redeemed by the innocent love for a boy (yet co...

Sir Charles Locock and potassium bromide.

On 12 May 1857, Edward Sieveking read a paper on epilepsy to the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society in London. During the discussion that followed Sir Charles Locock, obstetrician to Queen Victoria, was reported to have commented that during the past 14 months he had used potassium bromide to successfully stop epileptic seizures in all but one of 14 or 15 women with 'hysterical' or catamenia...