Arthur St George Huggett

Arthur St George Joseph McCarthy Huggett FRS FRSE (23 April 1897 – 21 July 1968) was a British physiologist.[1]

Professor

Hugo Huggett
Arthur Huggett, photographed by Walter Bird
Born(1897-04-23)23 April 1897
North Kensington
Died21 July 1968(1968-07-21) (aged 71)
NationalityBritish
EducationUniversity of London.
Scientific career
InstitutionsSt Mary's Hospital, London

Life

He was born in North Kensington in London, the son of Arthur Henry Richard Huggett ( a lecturer in Botany at Goldsmiths College) and his wife, Helen Mary McCarthy, an active Suffragette of Irish descent. He was raised as a Roman Catholic but later denounced his faith. He was educated by a private governess until 12 years old then at Wimbledon College then studied Medicine at the University of London.[1]

His training was interrupted by the First World War during which he served 1918 to 1919 with the Royal Army Medical Corps in Murmansk, supporting British troops in the ill-judged invasion of Russia after the German surrender. Returning to London he graduated BSc in 1920 and MB in 1921.

From 1919 he acted as a Demonstrator in the Physiology lectures at St Thomas's Hospital in London. In 1925 he received his first doctorate (PhD) and a second (DSc) in 1930 at which point he was promoted to Lecturer. He was given a full professorship at St Marys Hospital Medical School in 1935 where he then worked until retiral in 1964. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1958 and a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1965. His proposers for the latter were Robert Campbell Garry, Norman Davidson, Hamish Munro and Paul Bacsich .[2]

He retired to Edinburgh and died there on 21 July 1968.

Family

He married three times: firstly in 1923 to Margaret Mary Head (d.1934); secondly in 1938 to Esther Margaret Killick (d.1960); and lastly in 1962 to the eminent botanist Helen Kemp Porter (d.1987), then a widow.[3]

References
  1. Brambell, F. W. R (1970). "Arthur St George Joseph McCarthy Huggett. 1897–1968". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 16: 343–364. JSTOR 769594.
  2. Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X.
  3. Marilyn Ogilvie and Joy Harvey, The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science, s.v. 'Mary Porter'
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