Reginald John Gladstone
FRSE
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FRCS LRCP MZS (1865–1947) was a British anatomist and embryologist. As he suffered from bilateral
congenital cataracts his career was limited mainly to educational fields and research. He took a special interest in deformities of the embryo.
Life
He was born on 9 June 1865 in
Clapham, the third and youngest son of Dr Thomas H. Gladstone DPH and his wife Matilda Field (daughter of
Joshua Field). His father died when he was six and the family then moved to
Aberdeen. He studied medicine at
Aberdeen University graduating MB CM DPH in 1888.
He undertook his clinical training at
Middlesex Hospital as house physician and surgeon. Aberdeen gave him his doctorate (MD) in 1894. In 1895 he became an Anatomy Demonstrator at the hospital and in 1896 became Senior Demonstrator. He made study trips to both
Vienna and
Vancouver (the latter representing the
British Medical Association
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) to increase his knowledge of embryology.
In 1911 he was elected a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh
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. His proposers were
Arthur Robinson,
Joseph Strickland Goodall,
John Cameron, and
David Waterston.
In 1912, he married Ida Millicent Field, his first cousin.
In 1913 he moved to
King's College, London as a Reader and Lecturer in Anatomy (specialising in Embryology) and stayed there until retiral in 1938. When he first moved here he lived at 22 Regents Park Terrace in
London, a fairly prestigious address.
Up until 1941 he lived at 22 Court Lane Gardens in
Dulwich, a pleasant rural-ambience suburb of
London, but his house was destroyed by a bomb during
The Blitz. He then moved to Greenhayes on Sway Road in
Brockenhurst.
He died on 12 February 1947.
Publications
*''The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology'' (1915) with others
*''The Development of Blood Plasma'' (1925) co-written with
John William Pickering
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*''The Pineal Organ'' (1940)
*''A Presomite Human Embryo'' (1941)
Gladstone contributed the article on "The Brain" to
Encyclopædia Britannica.
Family
In 1912 he married his first cousin Ida Millicent Field. They had one son and one daughter.
References
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1865 births
1947 deaths
Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
People from Clapham
British anatomists
Alumni of the University of Aberdeen