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Sir Bertram Windle
St Michael's College, Toronto

Sir Bertram Coghill Alan Windle,

anatomist, administrator, archaeologist, scientist, educationalist and writer.[1][2]

Biography

Queen's College, Birmingham, a predecessor college of Birmingham University

He was born at Mayfield Vicarage, in Staffordshire, where his father, the Reverend Samuel Allen Windle, a Church of England clergyman, was vicar.[3] He attended Trinity College, where he graduated B.A. in 1879. He also served as Librarian of the University Philosophical Society in the 1877–78 session.

In 1891 he was appointed dean of the medical faculty of

Birmingham University. He was a member of the Teachers′ Registration Council until he resigned in late 1902.[4] In 1904 he accepted the presidency of Queen's College, Cork.[5] He acted as president of the university (which became known as University College Cork in 1908) until 1918, when he moved to Canada.[6]

During his medical training days, Windle was an

neo-Lamarckism.[9]

Windle was a vitalist.[10] Historian Peter J. Bowler has written that Windle was "one of the few biologists to defend an outright vitalism."[11]

Family

Windle married twice, first in 1886 to Madoline Hudson, and in 1901 to Edith Mary Nazer. He died in 1929 aged 71.[12][13]

Honours

Windle was elected a Fellow of the

King George V during a ceremony at Buckingham Palace on 6 March 1912.[16]

Works

Selected articles

Miscellany

See also

References

  1. ^ "Windle, Bertram Coghill Alan". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. pp. 1915–1916.
  2. ^ Carr, Henry (1929). "Sir Bertram Windle: The Man and His Work". The Catholic World. 129 (770): 165–171.
  3. ^ Horgan, John J (1960). "Sir Bertram Windle (1858–1929)" (PDF). Hermathena. 94: 3.
  4. ^ "Notice". The Times. No. 36923. London. 12 November 1902. p. 10.
  5. ^ McCorkell, E.J. (1958). "Bertram Coghill Alan Windle" (PDF). CCHA Report. 25: 55. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 October 2014. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
  6. ^ "Professor Windle – Additional Information". ucc.ie. University College Cork. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
  7. ^
    ISBN 0-226-06858-7
  8. ISBN 978-0-8264-5833-9
  9. ISBN 978-0-674-03175-3
  10. ISBN 0-8014-8663-7
  11. ISBN 0-226-06858-7
  12. ^ "Sir Bertram Windle, F.R.S," Nature, Vol. 123, March 1929, p. 354.
  13. ^ "The Late Sir Bertram Windle," The British Medical Journal, Vol. 1, No. 3564, 1929, p. 792.
  14. ^ "Complete List of Royal Society Fellows 1660-2007" (PDF). Royal Society. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
  15. Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 28 Oct 2017
  16. ^ "No. 28588". The London Gazette. 8 March 1912. pp. 1745–1746.
  17. ^ "Is Not Foe to Cause of Science," The Toronto World, 16 March 1920, p. 4.

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