W. H. Gaskell
Walter Holbrook Gaskell
Early life
The son of barrister John Dakin Gaskell, he was educated at Highgate School and Trinity College, Cambridge, receiving his BA as a wrangler in 1869 and becoming a Fellow of Trinity Hall.[2][3][4]
Career
He worked in the Physiological Laboratory of the
He was elected a
He wrote "The Origin of the Vertebrates", published by Longmans, Green, and Co., London, in 1908,
Private life
In 1875 Walter Gaskell married Catherine Sharpe Parker, first cousin of the London architect Horace Field. They had four daughters and a son, John Foster Gaskell (1878-1960),[6] named after a neighbour and friend, the physiologist Michael Foster. The family settled near Cambridge where he remained for the rest of his life, residing first at Grantchester and later at Great Shelford, where he built a hilltop home, The Uplands, designed by Horace Field, opposite the hill on which stood Michael Foster's home, Nine Wells House.[7] During his youth, he engaged in rowing, cricket, tennis and swimming. Later he enjoyed yachting, fishing, whist and bridge. Throughout life, he always took a somewhat leisurely course during both work and play activities. His main hobby was gardening, and he converted a large area of his 15 acres of the Gog Magog Hills into a charming terraced garden. After Gaskell's death at The Uplands, his remaining family continue to live there until 1961, when the house and estate was auctioned on behalf of the executors of the late Dr John Foster Gaskell and Miss Gaskell MBE.[8] In 1990 a major fire destroyed the house and its ruins still stand today in dense woodland on land now owned by a Cambridge College.
References
- ^ "Gaskell, Walter Holbrook". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 662.
- ^ Ed. Boreham, J.Y. Highgate School Register 1838-1938 (4th ed.). p. 29.
- ^ "Gaskell, Walter Holbrook (GSKL864WH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ https://archive.org/details/p2alumnicantabri03univuoft/page/22/mode/2up Alumni cantabrigienses Part II, p22
- ^ "Walter Gaskell and the understanding of atrioventricular conduction and block". American College of Cardiology Foundation. Retrieved 31 January 2011.
- ^ https://history.rcplondon.ac.uk/inspiring-physicians/john-foster-gaskell Royal College of Physicians, Obituary John Foster Gaskell accessed 8 January 2021
- ^ https://www.parksandgardens.org/places/nine-wells-house-great-shelford Nine Wells House, Great Shelford www.parksandgardens.org, accessed 8 January 2021
- ^ 1961 Estate Agent's sale particualars
Bibliography
- JNL (1914–1915) Proc Roy Soc Lond B Biol Sci 88:xxvii–xxxvi (Obituary)
- Silverman, ME; Upshaw, CB (2002). "Walter Gaskell and the understanding of atrioventricular conduction and block". J Am Coll Cardiol. 39 (10): 1574–1580. PMID 12020482.
External links
- The Royal Society: Walter Holbrook Gaskell (1847–1914)
- Royal Medal winners prior to 1900
- The Royal Society: photograph
- Works by W. H. Gaskell at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about W. H. Gaskell at Internet Archive
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