Warrington Yorke

He was born at Lancaster, the son of Rev Henry Lefroy Yorke, a Wesleyan minister, and his wife, Margaret Warrington, the eldest of four brothers and two sisters.[1]

He attended University School, Southport and Epworth College, Rhyl, before studying medicine at the University of Liverpool.

In 1907, he joined the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. From 1914 to 1929, he was Walter Myers professor of parasitology, and from 1929 until his death he was the Alfred Jones professor of tropical medicine, University of Liverpool.

During World War I, Yorke served as a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps, based in Malta from 1915 to 1916. He returned to Liverpool in 1916, and produced more than thirty reports on "Studies in the treatment of malaria".

• "The Nematode Parasites of Vertebrates" (1926), with Philip Alan Maplestone.

In 1925, he was awarded the Chalmers memorial gold medal of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene for his services to tropical medicine.

He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society on 5 May 1932.[2]

In 1916, he married Elizabeth Annie Greening; they had a son and a daughter.

Yorke died at his home, 4 Bryanston Road, Prenton, Birkenhead, on 24 April 1943 and was survived by his wife.