Background
GASKELL, Walter Holbrook was born on November 1, 1847 in Naples.
GASKELL, Walter Holbrook was born on November 1, 1847 in Naples.
Studied at Sir Roger Cholmeley’s School, Highgate. Trinity College Cambridge 1865. University College Medical School.
Honourable Doctor of Laws Edinburgh, 1894. Honourable Doctor of Laws Macgill University, Montreal, 1897. Marshall Hall Prize, 1888.
Master of Arts; Doctor of Medicine. Doctor of Laws.
Fellowship at Trinity Hall, 1889. Gold medallist Royal Society 1889. Baly medallist, 1895.
Honourable Fellow of Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society, 1905. University Lecturer in Physiology, Cambridge, since 1883; Fellow and Prelector in Natural Science, Trinity Hall.
Fellow of the Royal Society. Club: Savile.
Spouse 1875, Catharine Sharpe,daughter R. A. Parker.