Edward Vaughan Berkeley Harley MRCP (28 December 1864 – 21 May 1923), was Professor of Pathological Chemistry at London University from 1896 to his retirement in 1919.

Life

He was the son of the physician

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(1829–1896) and Emma Jessie née Muspratt (1835–1919) and brother of

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. Vaughan studied medicine at the

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, graduating with an MBCM in 1887; and MD with gold medal in 1891. After travelling the world for a couple of years he studied in Paris with

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and

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, in Leipzig with

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, in Turin with

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, in Vienna, Budapest and Christiania. In 1893 he was invited by

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at University College to establish the first department of pathological chemistry in England; in 1896, on Horsley's retirement he was appointed to the professorship. In 1905 he married a renowned beauty, Mary 'Ming' née Blagden (1869–1936), daughter of the Rev Henry Blagden (1832–1922), Hon. Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, and Isabella Catherine née Searight (1845–1923). They had two daughters: Diana Mary 'Dido' Harley (1906–1964) who was the second wife of Brigadier Eric Greville Earle DSO (1893–1965); and

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(1908–1978) who married first in 1936 Lt-Col

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(1898–1991), they divorced in 1942, and in 1952 she married secondly the American landscape architect

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(1912–1983). His London practice was at 25 Harley Street. In 1907 he purchased

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as a country house; he established a farm there where he explored his deep interest in scientific farming and bred prize-winning shorthorn cattle, Oxford Downs sheep, shire horses and Large Black pigs. He died at Walton Hall in 1923.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Harley, Vaughan 1864 births 1923 deaths Academics of University College London English pathologists