Brian Windeyer
Sir Brian Wellingham Windeyer
Early life and education
Windeyer was born in Turramurra[3] near Sydney, Australia, to parents of British, and earlier Swiss origin. He was the youngest of seven children of Mabel Fuller Robinson (1864–1956), an orphan emigrant from London to Australia at the age of 18. In 1891 she married Richard Windeyer KC (1864–1957), a barrister. His grandfather was Sir William Charles Windeyer.[3]
He attended
Career
After time at
Personal life
He was married twice, first on 21 March 1928 to Joyce Ziele Russell (1903–1981). They had a son Michael (1933–) and daughter Joanne (1936–). He married second, in January 1948, Elspeth Anne Bowery and had three children, Francis (1949–), Kyla (1954–), and Elspeth (1957–).[4][3]
He was knighted (
KBE) in 1961.[2] The Windeyer building, now the Windeyer Institute of Medical Sciences, of University College London with which the Middlesex Medical School merged, was named after him.[6]
See also
References
- ^ National Library of Australia, accessed 23 March 2013
- ^ a b c d Encyclopaedia of Australian Science: Rosanne Walker, 30 June 1997, modified 4 February 2010, accessed 23 March 2013
- ^ a b c "Juan del Regato Foundation Radiological Oncologists c.1986 accessed 23 September 2013" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 23 March 2013.
- ^ a b New Scientist on Google Books, 21 September 1961, accessed 23 March 2013
- ^ a b Oxford Brookes University: Sir Brian Windeyer in interview with Sir Gordon Wolstenholme, Oxford, 17 March 1986, accessed 23 March 2013 Archived April 5, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b c Windeyer - history of a building, accessed 23 March 2013
- ^ Royal College of Radiologists, list of past presidents, accessed 23 March 2013[permanent dead link]
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