John Beresford Leathes ( 1864 - 1956 )

Birth: 05 November 1864 Death: 14 September 1956 Profession: Physiologist Education: Winchester College; MB; BA; BC (Oxon); BM (1893); FRCS (1894) Career: Assistant Demonstrator ofg Anatomy at Guys Hospital, London1890-91; Demonstrator of Physiology under E H Starling at Guy's Hospital London (1894-95);two years with Drechsel in Berne (1895-7); two years with Schmiedeberg (1898-9)' Lecturer in Physiology at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, London(18991909); part time at the Lister Institute (1901-1909); Professor of new Chair of Pathological Chemistry at Faculty of Medicine in Toronto, Canada (1909-1914); succeeded J S Macdonald as Professor of Physiology at Sheffield (1914-1933); also acted as Dean of the Medical Faculty (1916-1922 and 1931-1933); Moved to Wantage (1933) then to Oxford to work with Professor John Mellanby FRS in the laboratory of physiology.