Background
Eddy was born on 4 November 1926 in Cornwall, the son of Alfred and Ellen Eddy.
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Alfred Eddy
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After completing his secondary education at Devonport High School for Boys, he attended Exeter College, Oxford, graduating with a 1st Class Honours degree in 1949.
Career
He was awarded his Doctor of Philosophy in 1951. In 1953, Eddy joined the Brewing Industry Research Foundation in Nutfield. In 1959, he was appointed to the first chair of Biochemistry at University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology.
He oversaw the creation of the Department of Biochemistry from the previously existing Brewing Chemistry department.
He held this position until his retirement in 1994. He is currently Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Manchester.
Eddy"s research interests are diverse, but his major contributions have been in the biology of transport-membrane transport, in particular the functioning of proton pumps and symport systems
