Edward Fawcett
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On September 21st, Professor Fawcett, who for forty-one years held the Chair of Anatomy in the University College, and University of Bristol, died suddenly while walking in the street. He had occupied a preeminent place in the work of the University and in the affections of many generations of medical students. He came to Bristol as a young man in 1893, four years after he had qualified at Edinburgh University, be the first full-time Professor of Anatomy in University College, and he captured the attention of a none too orderly crowd of medical students immediately by his capacity to lecture, to demonstrate, to illustrate by drawings and by his power of keeping order. Perhaps he had other gifts besides his grasp of anatomy that gave him authority m his class-room. He was an all-round athlete, and as a cricketer might have found a place in almost any county team. Edward Fawcett was horn in 18G7, the son of Thomas Fawcett, B.A., at Blencow, near Penrith, and was educated at the Grammar School there and at
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دوره 59 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 1942