Sir Edward Charles Dodds, 1st Baronet (13 October 1899 – 16 December 1973) was a British biochemist.
Personal life
He was born in
Liverpool
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the 10th largest English district by population and its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom, with a populat ...
in 1899, the only child of Ralph Edward Dodds, a shoe retailer, and Jane (née Pack) Dodds.
The family shortly moved to
Leeds
Leeds () is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds district in West Yorkshire, England. It is built around the River Aire and is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. It is also the third-largest settlement (by popula ...
, then to
Darlington and then to Chesham, Bucks, where he attended
Harrow County School. From there he entered the
Middlesex Hospital Medical School
Middlesex Hospital was a teaching hospital located in the Fitzrovia area of London, England. First opened as the Middlesex Infirmary in 1745 on Windmill Street, it was moved in 1757 to Mortimer Street where it remained until it was finally clos ...
in London in 1916, spent one year in the army in 1917, and qualified MRCS and LRCP in 1921.
He died at Sussex Square in
Paddington, London
Paddington is an area within the City of Westminster, in Central London. First a medieval parish then a metropolitan borough, it was integrated with Westminster and Greater London in 1965. Three important landmarks of the district are Paddi ...
on 16 December 1973.
Career
In 1924 he was appointed to the new Chair of Biochemistry at the University of London which was started in the Bland Sutton Institute of Pathology at the Middlesex. Three years later, he was appointed Director of the recently completed Courtauld Institute of Biochemistry and retained these two appointments until his retirement forty years later. His scientific interests were wide and varied; he had a continuing interest in the problem of cancer and of research into its causation, and was an authority on food and diet and also devoted time and energy to the problems of rheumatism. He provided facilities and gave advice and encouragement to younger colleagues in such work as immunopathology, steroid chemistry, cytochemistry and the work which led to the discovery of Aldosterone.
Awards and honours
He was appointed a
Member (fourth class) of the Royal Victorian Order in the
1929 Birthday Honours.
In 1940, Dodds received the
Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh. The next year, 1941, he was elected a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were
Francis Albert Eley Crew
Francis Albert Eley Crew FRS FRSE LLD (2 March 1886 – 26 May 1973) was an English animal geneticist. He was a pioneer in his field leading to the University of Edinburgh’s place as a world leader in the science of animal genetics. He was t ...
,
Alan William Greenwood,
James Kendall and
Guy Frederic Marrian
Frederic Guy Marrian CBE FRS FRSE FIC (3 March 1904 – 24 July 1981) was a British biochemist mainly known for his research into oestregen.
Life
He was born in London on 3 March 1904 the son of Mary Eddington Currie and Frederic York Marrian, ...
.
In 1942 he was elected to
Fellowship of the Royal Society
Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the judges of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematic ...
and subsequently served as Vice-President. He served the
Royal College of Physicians
The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) is a British professional membership body dedicated to improving the practice of medicine, chiefly through the accreditation of physicians by examination. Founded by royal charter from King Henry VIII in 1 ...
for some years as Harveian Librarian and in 1962 was elected President, the first to hold the office who was laboratory based and not engaged in clinical practice. During his term of office as President he was invested as a knight into the
Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (K.St.J.).
He was
knighted in 1954, and created 1st Baronet Dodds of
West Chiltington
West Chiltington is a village and civil parish in the Horsham district of West Sussex, England. It lies on the Storrington to Broadford Bridge road, 2.6 miles (4.2 km) north of Storrington.
The parish covers an area of 1733 hectares ...
in the
County of Sussex
Sussex (), from the Old English (), is a historic county in South East England that was formerly an independent medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom. It is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English ...
on 10 February 1964.
Sir Edward Charles Dodds, 1st Bt.
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Publications
He co-authored a number of books such as ''The Laboratory in Surgical practice'',''Chemical and Physiological Propertes of Medicine'' and ''Recent Advances in British Medicine'' .
Family
In 1923 he had married Constance Elizabeth Jordan (d.1969) of Darlington.
They had one son, Sir Ralph Jordan Dodds, who succeeded to the baronetcy on Charles' death in 1973.
References
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1899 births
1973 deaths
Medical doctors from Liverpool
Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Fellows of the Royal Society
Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians
Members of the Royal Victorian Order
British biochemists
Presidents of the Royal College of Physicians
Knights Bachelor
Physicians of the Middlesex Hospital
People from West Chiltington