Citizenship United Kingdom Died 1929, Toronto, Canada Nationality English | Name Bertram Windle Fields Comparative anatomy Role Writer | |
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Born Bertram Coghill Alan Windle
8 May 1858
Mayfield, Staffordshire ( 1858-05-08 ) Books The proportions of the hu, Science and morals - a, The Wessex of Thomas, Shakespeare's Country, A Handbook of Surfac | ||
Alma mater Trinity College, Dublin | ||
Sir Bertram Coghill Alan Windle, M.A., M.D., Sc.D., Ph.D., LL.D., F.R.S., F.S.A., K.S.G., (8 May 1858 – 14 February 1929) was a British anatomist, administrator, archaeologist, scientist, educationalist and writer.
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Biography
He was born at Mayfield Vicarage, in Staffordshire, where his father, the Reverend Samuel Allen Windle, a Church of England clergyman, was vicar. He attended Trinity College, where he graduated B.A. in 1879. He also served as Librarian of the University Philosophical Society in the 1877–78 session. Later he became a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1891 he was appointed dean of the medical faculty of Queen's College, Birmingham. Queen's College's medical faculty became the medical faculty of Mason Science College in the early 1890s, and then became the medical faculty of the University of Birmingham in 1900. Windle was professor of anatomy and anthropology and first Dean of the Medical Faculty at Birmingham University. In 1904 he accepted the presidency of Queen's College, Cork. Professor Windle married twice, first in 1886 to Madoline Hudson, and in 1901 to Edith Mary Nazer.
Windle was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1899. He died in 1929 aged 71. His conversion to Catholicism influenced many.
Honors
In 1909, he was made a knight of St. Gregory the Great by Pius X.