Richard Norris Wolfenden (1854–1926) was an English physician and oceanographer.

Life

Wolfenden was educated at

Christ's College, Cambridge Christ's College is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. The college includes the Master, the Fellows of the College, and about 450 undergraduate and 250 graduate students. The c ...

. He practised as a London physician, and lectured in physiology at the

Charing Cross Hospital Charing Cross Hospital is district general hospital and teaching hospital located in Hammersmith in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. The present hospital was opened in 1973, although it was originally established in 1818, approxim ...

medical school. He was House Physician at the

London Hospital The Royal London Hospital is a large teaching hospital in Whitechapel in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is part of Barts Health NHS Trust. It provides district general hospital services for the City of London and London Borough of Tow ...

and Senior Physician at the

Throat Hospital In vertebrate anatomy, the throat is the front part of the neck, internally positioned in front of the vertebrae. It contains the pharynx and larynx. An important section of it is the epiglottis, separating the esophagus from the trachea (windpip ...

, Golden Square, London. He founded and edited the ''Journal of Laryngology and Rhinology''. As well as his medical practice, Wolfenden also interested himself in oceanography.Damkaer, D. M., 'Determination and enthusiasm: Richard Norris Wolfenden (1854-1926), his plankton studies and other things oceanographical', ''Archives of Natural History'' 27:2 (2000), 209-29 Together with

George Herbert Fowler George Herbert Fowler (4 September 1861, Lincoln – 15 August 1940, Aspley Guise) was an English zoologist, historian and archivist. Fowler was educated at Marlborough College, Eton College and Keble College, Oxford. From 1887 to 1889 he was a ...

, Wolfenden founded the

Challenger Society for Marine Science The Challenger Society for Marine Science (or Challenger Society) is a learned society established in 1903 in the United Kingdom around the interdisciplinary subject of marine science. The central objectives of the Challenger Society are: * To ad ...

in 1903.

Works

* ''On infantile cerebral paralysis'', 1886 * ''Studies in pathological anatomy, especially in relation to laryngeal neoplasms'', 1888 * ''Copepoda'', 1908 * ''Scientific and biological researches in the North Atlantic : conducted by the author on his yachts 'The Walwin' and 'The Silver Belle''', 1909

References

Sources

*J. Dundas-Grant, "In memoriam: R. Norris Wolfenden", ''Journal of laryngology and otology'', 1926, pp. 833–834 *D.M. Damkaer, "R. Norris Wolfenden, M.D.: the medical episode", ''Journal of laryngology and otology,'' 1989, 103: 1005-1013 1854 births 1926 deaths 19th-century English medical doctors Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge English oceanographers 20th-century English medical doctors {{geographer-stub