Sir German Sims Woodhead, KBE FRSE PRMS LLD (29 April 1855 – 29 December 1921) was an

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Life

He was born at Woodland Mount, a large country house near

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, on 29 April 1855 the son of

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, a newspaper owner (and later politician), and his wife Catherine Woodhead. He was educated at Huddersfield College. He then studied Medicine at

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, graduating MB ChB in 1878. From 1885 to 1890 he worked as a lab assistant in Edinburgh University, living then at 6 Marchhall Crescent. During his time in Edinburgh, in 1886, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir William Turner,

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, Robert Gray and Sir John Murray. In 1890, aged only 35, he became Director of the Conjoint Laboratories of the Royal Colleges of Physicians and of Surgeons in

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. In 1899 he was made

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. He was the first Editor of the Journal of Pathology. In the

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he was the Inspector of Government Laboratories serving all military hospitals. He was attached to the

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at the rank of Lt Colonel. Largely as a result of this service he was knighted (KBE) by King

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in 1919. He died at Aisthorpe Hall in

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on 29 December 1921 and is buried in

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Family

In 1881 he married Harriet Elizabeth St Clair Erskine Yates.

Published Work

*''Practical Pathology'' (1883) *''Pathological Mycology'' (1885), with A. W. Hare *''Bacteria and Their Products'' (1891) *''Report to the Royal Commission on

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'' (1895)

References

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'Woodhead, Sir German Sims (1855–1921)'
''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004 * English pathologists English medical writers English tax resisters 1855 births 1921 deaths People educated at Huddersfield New College Medical doctors from Yorkshire Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire University of Edinburgh Medical School alumni Fellows of the Royal Microscopical Society Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh {{England-writer-stub