Background
Florey, Lord Howard Walter was born on September 24, 1898. Son of Joseph Florey.
Florey, Lord Howard Walter was born on September 24, 1898. Son of Joseph Florey.
Educated Saint Peter’s Collegiate School. Doctor of Medicine Adelaide University, Magdalen College, Oxford. Rhodes Scholar for South. Australia, 1921.
John Lucas Walker student, Cambridge, 1924.
Rockefeller Travelling Fellow, United States, 1925. Freedom Research Fellow, London Hospital, 1926.
Fellow Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, 1926. Fellow, Lincoln College, Oxford.
Held degrees Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, Master of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Doctor of Philosophy.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Georgetown University, 1965. Honorary Doctor of Science, Harvard University, 1967.
; 1 son, 1 daughter. Married second, Margaret Jennings, 1967. Huddersfield lector in special pathology Cambridge, 1927.
Joseph Hunter professor of pathology, University of Sheffied, 1931-1935.
Professor pathology, Oxford, 1935-1962. Provost Queen's College, Oxford, from 1962.
Charles Mickle fellowship, Toronto University, 1944.
Fellow of the Royal Society (president 1960), Royal College Physicians. Member). Pioneered development of penicillin for clinical use.
Married Mary Ethel Reed, 1926 (deceased. Married second, Margaret Jennings, 1967.