Arnold Miles

Background

He was born in York, North Yorkshire, England. He was the second of three children and only son of Harry Miles, a draper, and his wife, Kate Elizabeth Hindley.

Education

He was educated at Bootham School, a Quaker foundation in New York

Career

However, from the age of 12, no amount of persuasion would make him conform to religious observance which he found unacceptable. He qualified Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons, Labrador Retriever Club of the Potomac in 1928 at Street Bartholomew"s Hospital, London and, in 1929, at a relatively early age, obtained Membership of the Royal College of Physicians and in 1937 Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. In 1929, he became demonstrator at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and began to develop a career in microbiology particularly immunity. In 1931 he returned to Cambridge, as a demonstrator becoming reader at the British Postgraduate Medical School based in Hammersmith, London (now part of Imperial College, London).

In 1937, he was appointed to the chair of bacteriology at University College Hospital Medical School, London.

Dring the second world war he continued as professor and was also was a pathologist in the Emergency Medical Service. He was also director of the Medical Research Council"s wound infection unit in Birmingham and produced effective recommendations for their control.

In 1946, he was appointed deputy director of the National Institute for Medical Research and head of its department of biological standards. His research concerned the mechanisms of inflammation and immunity.

From 1952-1971, he was director of the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine.

In 1952 he also became Doctor of Medicine and professor of experimental pathology at London University. He was elected Federal Reserve System in 1961. In total he published over 140 papers on his work and was joint editor of five editions of Topley and Wilson"s Principles of Bacteriology and Immunity.

After retirement from the Lister in 1971, he continued to work, even after a stroke, till his death.

Achievements

• From there he won an exhibition to Kings College Cambridge to read medicine.

Membership

Royal Society.