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Stone, John Richard Nicholas, 1913-1991

  • GB-2014-WSA-16364
  • Person
  • 1913-1991

Stone, Sir John Richard Nicholas, son of Sir Gilbert Stone, Chief Justice of Nagpur, and Elsie Lawton, d. of Walter Scott of Hull; b. 30 Aug. 1913; adm. Sept. 1926 (A); left Dec. 1930; Caius Coll. Camb., matric. 1931, BA 1935 (1st class hons Law Trip. Pt 1 1933, Economics Trip. Pt 2 1935); C. E. Heath & Co., Lloyd's brokers, 1936-9; Min. of Economic Warfare 1939-40, Cen­tral Statistical Office of War Cabinet 1940-5, personal assistant to Lord Keynes; Fellow of King's 1945-; CBE 1946; Dir. Dept of Applied Economics Univ. of Cambridge 1945-55, P. D. Leake Prof. of Finance and Accounting 1955-80; FBA 1956; ScD (Cantab.) 1957; hon. doctor­ates at many European Univs; Kt 1978; Nobel Prize for Economics 1984; author of a large number of works on Economics and allied subjects; m. 1st 1936 Winifred Mary, d. of Hammond Jenkins; 2nd 1941 Feodora Leontinoff; 3rd 1960 Mrs Giovanna Croft-Murray, d. of Count Aurelio Saffi; d. 12 Dec. 1991.

Huxley, Andrew Fielding, 1917-2012

  • GB-2014-WSA-09830
  • Person
  • 1917-2012

Huxley, Sir Andrew Fielding, brother of David Bruce Huxley (qv); b. 22 Nov. 1917; adm. Sert. 1930 (A), non-res. KS Sept. 1931; left July 1935; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1935 (open schol.), BA 1938 (1st class hons Nat. Sci. Trip. Pts 1 & 2), MA 1945; Fellow of Trinity 1941; operational res. for AA Command 1940-2, Admiralty 1942-5, Lieut. RNVR May 1944; Camb. Univ. dem­onstrator in Physiology 1949, asst dir. of research 1951, Reader in Experimental Biophysics 1959; Jodrell Prof. of Physiology Univ. Coll. Lond. 1960-9, Roy. Society res. Prof. 1969-83; FRS 1955; Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine 1963; Copley Medal, Royal Society, 1973; Kt 1974; President Royal Society 1980-5; hon. degrees at numerous universities; Fellow Imperial Coll. Lond. 1980, hon. Fellow Darwin Coll. Camb. 1981; OM 1983; Master of Trinity 1984-90; a Governor of the school (ex officio) 1984-90; a Busby Trustee 1986-; m. 5 July 1947 Jocelyn Richenda Gammell, d. of Michael Pease of Girton, Cambridge; d. 30 May 2012.

Adrian, Edgar Douglas, 1889-1977

  • GB-2014-WSA-01960
  • Person
  • 1889-1977

Adrian, Edgar Douglas, 1st Baron Adrian; brother of Harold Douglas Adrian (q.v.); b. Nov. 30, 1889; adm. Sept. 24, 1903; K.S. (non-resident) Sept. 22, 1904 (G); elected head to Trin. Coll. Camb. (with Samwaies) July 1908, scholar 1908, fellow Oct. 9, 1913; St class Nat. Science Trip., part 1, 1910, part 2 (Physiology), 1911; B.A. 1911; M.A. 1915; M.B. and B.C. 1915; M. D. 1919; represented Camb. in the Inter-University Foils Competition 1912; joint Coutts Trotter student 1912; Walsingham Gold Medal for Physiology 1912; Gedge Prize 1914; Rolleston Memorial Prize 1916; Horton-Smith Prize 1919; Lecturer at Trin. Coll. 1919; University Lecturer in Advanced Physiology 1920; was a student at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, M.R.C.P. (London), 1916; F.R.S. 1923; F.R.C.P. 1924; a Governor of the School March 1926; Foulerton Research Professor of the Royal Society 1929-37; Nobel Prize 1932; Hon. D.Sc. Oxon. 1936; various degrees later from British and foreign universities; Professor of Physiology, Cambridge, 1937-51; Master of Trinity Coll. Camb. since 1951; Vice-Chancellor 1957-59; first Chancellor of Univ. of Leicester 1958; Copley Medal of the Royal Soc. 1946; Foreign Secretary of the Royal Soc. 1946-50, and President 1950-55; President of the British Association 1954; President, Royal Society of Medicine, 1960-62; O.M. June 11, 1942; created Baron Adrian 1955; a Busby Trustee 1949; elected a Trustee of the Rockefeller Institute 1962; temp. Lieut. R.A.M.C. Jan. 1, 1916, Capt. Jan. 1, 1917-19; m. June 14, 1923, Hester Agnes, daughter of Hume Chancellor Pinsent, of Boar's Hill, Oxford; d. 4 Aug. 1977.