Reginald John Gladstone

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FRCS LRCP MZS (1865–1947) was a British anatomist and embryologist. As he suffered from bilateral

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s his career was limited mainly to educational fields and research. He took a special interest in deformities of the embryo.

Life

He was born on 9 June 1865 in

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, the third and youngest son of Dr Thomas H. Gladstone DPH and his wife Matilda Field (daughter of Joshua Field). His father died when he was six and the family then moved to Aberdeen. He studied medicine at

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graduating MB CM DPH in 1888. He undertook his clinical training at

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as house physician and surgeon. Aberdeen gave him his doctorate (MD) in 1894. In 1895 he became an Anatomy Demonstrator at the hospital and in 1896 became Senior Demonstrator. He made study trips to both Vienna and Vancouver (the latter representing the

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) to increase his knowledge of embryology. In 1911 he was elected a Fellow of the

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. His proposers were Arthur Robinson, Joseph Strickland Goodall, John Cameron, and David Waterston. In 1912, he married Ida Millicent Field, his first cousin. In 1913 he moved to

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as a Reader and Lecturer in Anatomy (specialising in Embryology) and stayed there until retiral in 1938. When he first moved here he lived at 22 Regents Park Terrace in London, a fairly prestigious address. Up until 1941 he lived at 22 Court Lane Gardens in

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, a pleasant rural-ambience suburb of London, but his house was destroyed by a bomb during

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. He then moved to Greenhayes on Sway Road in

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. He died on 12 February 1947.

Publications

*''The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology'' (1915) with others *''The Development of Blood Plasma'' (1925) co-written with John William Pickering *''The Pineal Organ'' (1940) *''A Presomite Human Embryo'' (1941) Gladstone contributed the article on "The Brain" to

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Family

In 1912 he married his first cousin Ida Millicent Field. They had one son and one daughter.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gladstone, Reginald John 1865 births 1947 deaths Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh People from Clapham British anatomists Alumni of the University of Aberdeen