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==Life== |
==Life== |
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He was born in [[Salisbury, Wiltshire]] on 9 January 1846. He studied Medicine at the [[University of London]] graduating MB BS in 1872. |
He was born in [[Salisbury, Wiltshire]] on 9 January 1846. He studied Medicine at the [[University of London]] graduating MB BS in 1872. |
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In 1878 he succeeded [[John Burdon-Sanderson]] as Professor of Pathology at the Brown Institute. In 1881 he went to [[Edinburgh]] to become Professor of Pathology and Clinical Medicine. |
In 1878 he succeeded [[John Burdon-Sanderson]] as Professor of Pathology at the Brown Institute. In 1881 he went to [[Edinburgh]] to become Professor of Pathology and Clinical Medicine. |
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Prof William Smith Greenfield FRSE FRCPE LLD (1846-1919) was a British anatomist. He was an expert on the anthrax virus.
Life
He was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire on 9 January 1846. He studied Medicine at the University of London graduating MB BS in 1872. In 1878 he succeeded John Burdon-Sanderson as Professor of Pathology at the Brown Institute. In 1881 he went to Edinburgh to become Professor of Pathology and Clinical Medicine.
In 1884 he was living at 7 Heriot Row, a magnificient Georgian terraced townhouse in Edinburgh's Second New Town.[1]
In 1886 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir William Turner, James Cossar Ewart, Robert Gray and Peter Guthrie Tait.[2]
In 1893 he gave the Bradshaw Lecture to the Royal College of Physicians.
He retired to Elie in Fife in 1912, being succeeded by Prof James Lorrain Smith.[3] He died in Juniper Green south of Edinburgh on 12 August 1919.
Family
Deeply evangelical, one of his sons became a minister, and two of his daughters became Christian missionaries in India.
Publications
- Pathology (1886)
References
- ^ Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1884-5
- ^ BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF FORMER FELLOWS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH 1783 – 2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.
- ^ Nature (magazine) vol 90, p.62