Background
BARCROFT, Henry was born on October 18, 1904 in Cambridge. Son of the late Sir Joseph Barcroft and Mary A. Balliol
BARCROFT, Henry was born on October 18, 1904 in Cambridge. Son of the late Sir Joseph Barcroft and Mary A. Balliol
Marlborough College, King"s College, Cambridge and Saint Mary's Hospital, London.
Lecturer in Physiology, University College, London 1932-1935. Dunville Professor, of Physiology, Queen"s University, Belfast 1935-1948. Professor, of Physiology, Saint Thomas’s Hospital Medical School, University of London 1948-1971, Emeritus (Honorary Consultant) since 1971.
Sir Henry Wellcome Trustee 1966-1974.
Chairman Research Defence Society 1969-1972, Secretary 1972-1977, Vice President since 1978, Honorary Doctor of Science (West. Australia, Queen"s University, Belfast), Honorary Doctor of Medicine (Innsbruck).
Society Franpaise d’Angiologie.
Married Bridget M. Ramsey in 1933.