Sir Percival Hartley CBE MC FRS[1] (28 May 1881 – 16 February 1957) was an English immunologist who was head of the Medical Research Council (MRC) Biological Standards Division for 44 years.[3][2][4][5][6]
Sir Percival Hartley | |
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| Born | Percival Hartley 28 May 1881 Calverley, Yorkshire |
| Died | 16 February 1957 (age 75) London |
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| Spouse | Olga Parnell[2] |
| Children | Two daughters[2] |
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Early life and education
editHarvey was born at Calverley, Yorkshire, England, the son of William Thompson Hartley, a coal merchant.[7] His mother's maiden name was Grimshaw.[1] He was educated at Belle Vue School and attended Bradford Technical College and then the University of Leeds where he studied chemistry, qualifying BSc in 1905. He then won a scholarship to the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine in London from 1906 to 1908, where he studied under J. B. Leathes. He gained a Doctor of Science degree from the University of London in 1909.[1][2][8]
Career
editHartley worked in India for four years as a government physiological chemist based at Muktesar, where he worked on the cattle disease rinderpest. He returned to the Lister Institute in 1913, as an assistant to Arthur Harden in the biochemical department. At the outbreak of the First World War, he joined up with the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) and served as a captain from 1915 to 1919, winning the Military Cross in 1917.[1]
Hartley then worked for two years at the Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories, where he developed a culture broth that permitted reliable production of diphtheria toxin.[1] In 1922 he 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.[2] He worked at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology from 1949 to 1953 and at the Lister Institute again from 1949 to 1953.[2] In the 1940s he worked with Ralph Kekwick.[citation needed]
Awards and honours
editHe was awarded the CBE in 1922 and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1937.[1] He was knighted in 1944 for work on penicillin.[3]
Personal life
editHe married Olga Parnell (died 1950) in 1920 and they had two daughters. He died in London.[2]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f g Dale, H. H. (1957). "Percival Hartley 1881-1957". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 3: 80–100. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1957.0006. JSTOR 769353. S2CID 73111783.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Percival Hartley". British Medical Journal. 1 (5016): 466–467. 1957. PMC 1974479. PMID 13396285.
- ^ a b "Obituary: Sir Percival Hartley". The Times. 18 February 1957. p. 12.
- ^ Hartley, S. P. (1949). "Materials Used in Great Britain for the Active Immunisation of Man Against Diphtheria". Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology. 1 (7): 425–435. doi:10.1111/j.2042-7158.1949.tb12442.x. PMID 18133067. S2CID 33302658.
- ^ Hartley, P.; Tulloch, W. J.; Anderson, M.; Davidson, W. A.; Grant, J.; Jamieson, W. M.; Neubauer, C.; Norton, R.; Robertson, G. H. (1951). "A study of diphtheria in two areas of Great Britain; a summary of Medical Research Council Special Report No. 272". Monthly Bulletin of the Ministry of Health and the Public Health Laboratory Service. 10: 143–147. PMID 14852897.
- ^ Long, D. A. (1957). "Sir Percival Hartley". Nature. 179 (4564): 806. doi:10.1038/179806a0. PMID 13430702.
- ^ 1901 England Census
- ^ 'HARTLEY, Sir Percival', Who Was Who, (Subscription based) A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Nov 2012, accessed 21 April 2013 (subscription required)