Alfred Henry Garrod (1846–79)

Zoologist. Son of Alfred Baring Garrod. Studied medicine at King’s College, London, and natural sciences at St John’s College, Cambridge; graduated December 1871. Elected prosector, Zoological Society of London, June 1871. Fellow, St John’s College, Cambridge, 1873; professor of comparative anatomy, King’s College, London, 1874; Fullerian Professor of physiology, Royal Institution of Great Britain, 1875. As a student, researched the causes of varying body temperature and developed an improved sphygmograph; later specialised in bird anatomy. FRS 1876.