Warrington Yorke FRS (11 April 1883 – 24 April 1943) was a British

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and Professor of Tropical Medicine at the

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Early life and education

He was born at Lancaster, the son of Rev Henry Lefroy Yorke, a Wesleyan minister, and his wife, Margaret Warrington, the eldest of four brothers and two sisters. He attended University School, Southport and Epworth College, Rhyl, before studying medicine at the

Career

In 1907, he joined the

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. From 1914 to 1929, he was Walter Myers professor of parasitology, and from 1929 until his death he was the Alfred Jones professor of tropical medicine,

. During World War I, Yorke served as a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps, based in Malta from 1915 to 1916. He returned to Liverpool in 1916, and produced more than thirty reports on "Studies in the treatment of malaria".

Selected publications

* "The Nematode Parasites of Vertebrates" (1926), with Philip Alan Maplestone.

Awards and honours

In 1925, he was awarded the Chalmers memorial gold medal of the

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for his services to tropical medicine. He was made a

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on 5 May 1932.

Personal life

In 1916, he married Elizabeth Annie Greening; they had a son and a daughter. Yorke died at his home, 4 Bryanston Road, Prenton, Birkenhead, on 24 April 1943 and was survived by his wife.

References

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