Background
Arthur Gamgee was the son of Joseph Gamgee, an Edinburgh veterinarian, and his wife Mary Ann W. He was born in Florence, Italy, where his father had a practice, but his family moved back to England when he was fourteen years old.
Arthur Gamgee was the son of Joseph Gamgee, an Edinburgh veterinarian, and his wife Mary Ann W. He was born in Florence, Italy, where his father had a practice, but his family moved back to England when he was fourteen years old.
He was educated at University College School in London and at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with an Doctor of Medicine
In 1862. He was made lecturer on physiology at Surgeon"s Hall and Physician to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children. In 1873 he was appointed Professor of Physiology at the Royal Manchester School of Medicine. He was also Physician to the Manchester Hospital for Consumption.
In 1872 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and delivered its Croonian Lecture in 1902.
From 1884 to 1886 he was Fullerian Professor of Physiology and Comparative Anatomy at the Royal Institution of Great Britain. He did not serve the full three years of the Fullerian appointment because he resigned his chair in 1886 to take up private practice.
He was also the author of A Text-book of the Physiological Chemistry of the Animal Body: including an account of the chemical changes occurring in disease, published in 1880. Personal life
On 29 March 1909, he died of pneumonia during a visit to Paris.
He was buried in the family vault in Arnos Vale Cemetery, Bristol.
Arthur Gamgee was fluent in French, German, and Italian.
Royal Society.