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Spouse
  
Olga Parnell

Name
  
Percival Hartley

Children
  
Two daughters

Died
  
February 16, 1957

Institutions
  
Royal Army Medical CorpsMedical Research CouncilNational Institute for Medical ResearchSir William Dunn School of PathologyUniversity of OxfordLister Institute of Preventive MedicineLondon School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Notable awards
  

Sir Percival Hartley CBE MC DSc FRS (28 May 1881 – 16 February 1957) was head of the Medical Research Council (MRC) Biological Standards Division for 44 years.

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Early life

He was born at Calverley, West Yorkshire, England, the son of W T Hartley. He attended Bradford Technical College and then the University of Leeds where he qualified BSc in 1905. He then won a scholarship to the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine in London from 1906-1908. He gained a Doctor of Science degree from the University of London in 1909.

Career

Hartley worked in India for four years then returned to the Lister Institute in 1913 but joined up with the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) and served as a captain from 1915-19 during the First World War. He won the Military Cross in 1917.

Hartley then worked for 3 years at the Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories and in 1922 joined the National Institute for Medical Research where he became director of biological samples. He stayed till 1946 when he joined the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. He worked at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology from 1949–53 and at the Lister Institute again from 1949-53. In the 1940s he worked with Ralph Kekwick.

Awards and honours

He was awarded the CBE in 1922 and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1937. He was knighted in 1942 for work on penicillin.

Personal life

He married Olga Parnell (d.1950) in 1920 and they had two daughters. He died in London.

References

Percival Hartley Wikipedia


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