German Sims Woodhead
Sir German Sims Woodhead, KBE FRSE PRMS LLD (29 April 1855 – 29 December 1921) was an English pathologist.[1][2]
Life
He was born at Woodland Mount, a large country house near Huddersfield, on 29 April 1855 the son of Joseph Woodhead, a newspaper owner (and later politician), and his wife Catherine Woodhead.
He was educated at Huddersfield College.[3] He then studied Medicine at Edinburgh University, graduating MB ChB in 1878.
From 1885 to 1890 he worked as a lab assistant in Edinburgh University, living then at 6 Marchhall Crescent.[4] During his time in Edinburgh, in 1886, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir William Turner, Alexander Crum Brown, Robert Gray and Sir John Murray.[5]
In 1890, aged only 35, he became Director of the Conjoint Laboratories of the Royal Colleges of Physicians and of Surgeons in London.
In 1899 he was made Professor of Pathology in Cambridge University.[6] He was the first Editor of the Journal of Pathology.
In the First World War he was the Inspector of Government Laboratories serving all military hospitals. He was attached to the RAMC at the rank of Lt Colonel. Largely as a result of this service he was knighted (KBE) by King George V in 1919.
He died at Aisthorpe Hall in Lincolnshire[7] on 29 December 1921 and is buried in Cambridge City Cemetery.[8]
Family
In 1881, he married Harriet Elizabeth St Clair Erskine Yates.[9]
Published work
- Practical Pathology (1883)
- Pathological Mycology (1885), with A. W. Hare
- Bacteria and Their Products (1891)
- Report to the Royal Commission on Tuberculosis (1895)
References
- Ritchie, J.; Boycott, A. E.; Dean, H. R. (1922). "German Sims Woodhead. K.B.E., M.D., LL.D. Born April 29th, 1855-Died December 29th, 1921". The Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology. 25: 118. doi:10.1002/path.1700250114.
- "Woodhead, German Sims (WDHT899GS)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- Woodhead, Harriett (1923). Sir German Sims Woodhead, K.B.E. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, Tweeddale Court. p. 2.
- Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1890
- Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 978-0-902198-84-5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
- "WOODHEAD, German Sims". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 1929.
- BMJ obituary 7 January 1922
- "Sir German Sims Woodhead (1855-1921) - Find A..." www.findagrave.com. Retrieved 8 September 2021.
- Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
External links
- Works by German Sims Woodhead at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about German Sims Woodhead at Internet Archive
- Sir German Sims Woodhead
- Michael Worboys, 'Woodhead, Sir German Sims (1855–1921)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Wood'head, German Sims (1844–)". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.