George Pickering (physician)

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Sir George White Pickering, FRS (26 June 1904 – 3 September 1980) was an English medical doctor and academic.

Biography

Pickering was

Master of Pembroke College, Oxford, from 1968 to 1975.[1][2][3]

He was a Governor of Abingdon School from 1969 until 1974.[4] Pickering was the author of the book Creative Malady (1974).[5] The book explores creativity and mental illness in the lives of Charles Darwin, Mary Baker Eddy, Sigmund Freud, Florence Nightingale, Marcel Proust and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.[6][7][8]

Honours

In the

Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace.[10]

Publications

References

  1. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/31546. Retrieved 23 July 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  2. JSTOR 769906
    .
  3. ^ "Sir George White Pickering". Munk's Roll. Royal College of Physicians of London. 2009. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
  4. ^ "The Governing Body, January 1969" (PDF). Abingdon School.
  5. ^ "Creative Malady". Kirkus Reviews.
  6. ^ Anonymous. (1975). Review of Creative Malady: Illness in The Lives and Minds of Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Mary Baker Eddy, Sigmund Freud, Marcel Proust, Elizabeth Barrett Browning. By George Pickering. British Journal of Psychiatry 127: 93.
  7. ^ Anonymous. (1976). Creative Malady By G. Pickering. Psychological Medicine 6 (1): 162-162.
  8. ^ Davidson, Claire. (1977). Reviewed Work: Creative Malady by George Pickering. Leonardo 10 (2): 160-161.
  9. ^ "No. 41089". The London Gazette (Supplement). 4 June 1957. pp. 3367–3368.
  10. ^ "No. 41134". The London Gazette. 23 July 1957. p. 4379.
Academic offices
Preceded by Regius Professor of Medicine, University of Oxford
1956 to 1968 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Master of Pembroke College, Oxford

1968 to 1975 		Succeeded by
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