Lawson Soulsby, Baron Soulsby of Swaffham Prior

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Lawson Soulsby, Baron Soulsby of Swaffham Prior

Ernest Jackson Lawson Soulsby, Baron Soulsby of Swaffham Prior (born June 23, 1926 - † May 8, 2017 ) was a British veterinarian , parasitologist , university lecturer and politician of the Conservative Party who was a member of the British House of Lords from 1990 to 2015 .

Life

University professor and member of the House of Lords

After attending school, Soulsby completed a degree in veterinary medicine and was after completing his studies between 1949 and 1952 City Veterinarian of Edinburgh and then until 1954 lecturer in clinical parasitology at the University of Bristol , before he was lecturer in animal pathology at the University of Cambridge between 1954 and 1964 was. At the same time he was President of the World Organization for Animal Parasitology from 1963 to 1968.

In 1964 he accepted a professorship for parasitology at the University of Pennsylvania and taught there until 1978. At the same time, he was head of the Department of Pathobiology between 1965 and 1978. After his return to Great Britain he was appointed professor of animal pathology at the University of Cambridge in 1978, where he taught until his retirement in 1993. In addition, from 1978 to 1993 he was Dean of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Cambridge and at the same time a Fellow at Wolfson College there , which made him an Honorary Fellow in 2004.

In addition to his teaching activities, Soulsby was an advisor to numerous universities, organizations and governments such as from 1973 to 1977 as chairman of the study group on parasitic diseases at the Research Institute of Walter Reed Military Hospital in Washington, DC Between 1985 and 1988 he was chairman of the committee in support of Animal research by the Agricultural and Food Research Council and at the same time chairman of the veterinary advisory committee of the Horserace Betting Levy Borard from 1985 to 1997 .

He was also a member of numerous organizations such as the Study Group on Tropical Medicine and Parasitology of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Washington, DC (1968 to 1972) and the Scientific Advisory Board of the Pan-American Health Organization ( Organización Panamericana de la Salud ) for zoonosis - Center in Buenos Aires (1974 to 1985).

By a letters patent dated May 22, 1990, Soulsby was raised to the nobility as a life peer with the title Baron Soulsby of Swaffham Prior , of Swaffham Prior in the County of Cambridgeshire . Shortly after its introduction was carried out (Introduction) as a member of the House of Lords . There he belongs to the faction of the Conservative Party. In the following years he took on a number of functions in the House of Lords and was, among other things, a member of the House of Lords Committee for Science and Technology as well as chairman of the Enquete Sub-Committee for Antimicrobial Resistance and the Enquete Sub-Committee for Infection Control. On December 31, 2015, he voluntarily resigned from the House of Lords.

Academic offices and honors

Soulsby, who is a Fellow of the Royal School of Medicine (1996) and the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (1997), was also President of numerous educational institutions such as the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (1984 to 1985), the Royal Society of Medicine (1998 to 2000), the Royal Institute of Public Health (2003), the Royal Society for Public Health (2007), and the Windward Islands Foundation for Education and Research .

Furthermore, he became a corresponding member or honorary member of several domestic and foreign scientific institutions such as the German Society for Parasitology (1980), Argentine Association of Animal Parasitologists (1984), the British Society of Parasitologists (1989), the Helminthological Society of Washington (1990) , the British Veterinary Association (1991) and the Academie Royale de Medicine de Belgique (1992).

He has received several awards for his many years of teaching and research activities, including the RN Chaudhury Gold Medal from the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine in 1976, the Behring Bilharz Prize 1977, and the Ludwig Schunk Prize from the Justus Liebig University Giessen in 1979 , the Frederich Messenmeier Medal from the Humboldt University of Berlin in 1990, the Chiron Award from the British Veterinary Association 1998, the CABI Bioscience Millennium Award 2004, the Mike Fisher Award from St George's University of Grenada in 2006, the Distinguished Service Award from St. George's University of Grenada in 2006 and the Wight Award from the British Association for Small Animal Medicine in 2009.

In addition, Soulsby has received a number of honorary doctorates , for example from the University of Pennsylvania (1985), the University of Edinburgh 1990, the Universidad de León (1993), the University of Peradeniya (1994), the University of Glasgow (2001), the University of Liverpool 2004 and University of Lincoln (2007).

Publications

Soulsby was not only the author of 14 specialist books, but also more than 200 articles and essays in specialist journals . One of his most important publications is the Textbook of veterinary clinical parasitology , Oxford 1965.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anne Bevins: Lord Soulsby of Swaffham Prior. In: beva.org.uk. BEVA Ltd., May 10, 2017, accessed on May 11, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Soulsby, Lawson, Baron Soulsby of Swaffham Prior
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Soulsby, Ernest Jackson Lawson, Baron Soulsby of Swaffham Prior (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, veterinarian, parasitologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1926
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 2017