John Stopford, Baron Stopford of Fallowfield

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John Sebastian Bach Stopford, Baron Stopford of Fallowfield KBE FRS FRCS FRCP (born June 25, 1888 in Hindley Green , Wigan , England - † March 6, 1961 in Westmorland , England) was a medical doctor and university professor who was appointed as a life peer in 1958 due to the Life Peerages Act 1958 became a member of the House of Lords .

Life

Stopford, son of mining engineer Thomas Rinck Stopford, began studying medicine at the University of Manchester after attending Liverpool College and Manchester Grammar School , from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine (MB). He completed a subsequent complementary study in surgery at the University of Manchester in 1911 with a Bachelor of Surgery (Ch.B.), before he completed postgraduate studies in medicine at the University of Manchester with a Doctor of Medicine (MD) in 1915 .

After practicing as a doctor for a few years , Stopford, who became a member of the Order of the British Empire in 1919, was appointed professor at the Chair of Anatomy at the University of Manchester in 1919 and held this professorship until 1937. During this time he became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1927 and was lastly Vice Chancellor of the University of Manchester between 1934 and 1956 . In addition to his many years of teaching activity, Stopford wrote numerous specialist books on anatomical and neurological topics.

After completing his teaching activities as a professor of anatomy, Stopford took over a professorship for experimental neurology at the University of Manchester in 1937 and taught there until his retirement in 1956. After he was beaten to a Knight Bachelor in 1941 and henceforth the name suffix "Sir", he became 1955 finally Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

Most recently, Stopford was raised to the nobility by a letters patent dated August 5, 1958 as a life peer with the title Baron Stopford of Fallowfield , of Hindley Green in the County of Lancashire, and was a member of the House of Lords until his death. He was one of the first to be named a Life Peer under the Life Peerages Act 1958.

Fonts

  • A note on the significance of certain anomalies of the renal and spermatic arteries , 1913
  • The supracondyloid tubercles of the femur and the attachment of the gastrocnemius muscle to the femoral diaphysis , 1914
  • The portal-systemic anastomoses , 1915
  • A case of Landry's paralysis , 1915
  • The arteries of the pons and medulla oblongata , 1916
  • Gunshot injuries of the peripheral nerves , 1916
  • Thermalgia , causalgia , 1917
  • The pathological diagnosis in gunshot injuries of peripheral nerves , 1918
  • A preliminary note on the trophic disturbances in gunshot injuries of peripheral nerves , 1918
  • So-called functional symptoms in organic nerve injuries , 1918
  • The variation in distribution of the cutaneous nerves of the hands and digits , 1918
  • Gunshot injuries of the cervical nerve roots , 1919
  • The results of secondary suture of peripheral nerves , 1920
  • The treatment of large defects in peripheral nerve injuries , 1920
  • The anatomical and physiological principles of muscle training , 1920
  • An anomalous response to direct faradic stimulation of a nerve , 1921
  • The nerve supply of the interphalangeal and metacarpo-phalangeal joints , 1921
  • Tactile localization , 1921
  • Neuritis produced by a wristlet watch , 1922
  • A new conception of the elements of sensation , 1922
  • Re-suture of peripheral nerves , 1922
  • The anatomy of so-called deep sensibility , 1923
  • The clinical significance of certain neuro-osseous relations , 1923
  • The function of the spinal nucleus of the trigeminal nerve , 1925
  • A lecture on some investigations of sensation , 1925
  • An explanation of the two-stage recovery of sensation during regeneration of a peripheral nerve , 1926
  • Compression of nerve fibers , 1926
  • Remarks on the causation of the increased intracranial pressure associated with tumors within the cranium , 1926
  • The principles underlying the structure of the sympathetic nervous system , 1926
  • Increased intracranial pressure , 1928
  • Department of Anatomy, University of Manchester , 1930
  • Sensation and the sensory pathway , 1930

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personal data
SURNAME Stopford, John, Baron Stopford of Fallowfield
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stopford, JSB; Stopford, John SB; Stopford, John Sebastian Bach; Stopford, John Sebastian Bach, Baron Stopford of Fallowfield (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British medic and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Hindley Green , Wigan , England
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1961
Place of death Westmorland , England