John Butterfield, Baron Butterfield

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William John Hughes Butterfield, Baron Butterfield , OBE (born March 28, 1920 in Stechford , Birmingham , according to other sources Solihull , † July 22, 2000 in Cambridge ) was a British medic and life peer .

Life

Butterfield grew up in Stechford, where his father ran a small factory that made light motorcycles for racing. He attended Solihull School and then studied medicine at Exeter College , Oxford . In Oxford, apart from medicine, he excelled as an athlete, winning the Blue award in cricket , rugby and field hockey .

In 1942 his tutor at Oxford, David Whitteridge , gave him a Rockefeller Foundation scholarship , which enabled him to study at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore . There he did his Doctor of Medicine (MD) before returning to Great Britain after the end of World War II . From 1946 Butterfield was a member of the Medical Research Council , from 1947 he did his military service with the Royal Army Medical Corps and then went from 1950 to 1952 as a Research Fellow at the Medical College in Virginia . During this time he studied skin burns , particularly those related to nuclear radiation. For this reason he was also present as an observer at the British nuclear tests on the Montebello Islands in 1952 and 1956.

In 1958, when his research focus had shifted to diabetes , he became professor of experimental medicine at Guy's Hospital in London, a position he would hold for twelve years. During this time he carried out a large diabetes study in Bedford , among other things , in the course of which over 20,000 urine samples were evaluated. In 1971 he followed the call to the University of Nottingham , where he had to deal with the student protests of that time as Vice Chancellor . In 1976 he finally took up the direct professorship for medicine at Cambridge , where he was a Masters at Downing College and from 1983 to 1985 Vice Chancellor.

In 1987 Butterfield retired. He was promoted to Life Peer the following year, officially held the title Baron Butterfield, of Stechford in the County of West Midlands and took a seat in the House of Lords .

In 1946 he married Ann Sanders, who died in 1948 giving birth to their son. In 1950 he married Isabel-Ann Kennedy, with whom he had three more children.

Honors

Fonts

  • On burns. with William Altemeier et al., CC Thomas, Springfield, Illinois 1953.
  • Tolbutamide after ten years. Proceedings of the Brook Lodge symposium, Augusta, Michigan, March 6-7, 1967. (Ed.) With W. van Westering, Excerpta Medica Foundation, Amsterdam, New York etc., 1967.
  • Priorities in medicine. Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust, London 1968.
  • Health and sickness: the choice of treatment. Perception of illness and use of services in an urban community. with Michael Wadsworth and Roger Blaney , Tavistock Publications, London 1971, ISBN 0-42273-360-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ RS Ross: Memorial. Sir John WH Butterfield 1920-2000. In: Transactions of the American Clinical and Climatological Association. Volume 112, 2001, pp. Lx-lxii, PMID 11413790 , PMC 2194391 (free full text).
  2. ↑ a b c Obituary on theguardian.com, accessed on February 21, 2015
  3. ^ Obituary on nytimes.com accessed on February 21, 2015
  4. ↑ a b Obituary on telegraph.co.uk, accessed on February 21, 2015
  5. ↑ Overview of an interview from 1991 on brookes.ac.uk ( memento of the original from February 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Eng.) accessed on February 21, 2015  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.brookes.ac.uk
  6. ^ William John Hughes Butterfield, Baron Butterfield on thepeerage.com , accessed September 11, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Butterfield, John, Baron Butterfield
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Butterfield, William John Hughes, Baron Butterfield (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British medic and university professor, life peer
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Birmingham
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 2000
Place of death Cambridge