German Sims WOODHEAD, British Assistant Commissioner. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh; Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh; Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
Background
WOODHEAD, German Sims was born on April 29, 1855 in Huddersfield. Son of Joseph Woodhead, Justice of the Peace (formerly Member of Parliament for Spen Valley), editor Huddersfield Examiner, and Catherine, daughter of James Booth Woodhead, The Ridings, Holmtirth.
Education
Studied at Huddersfield College, Edinburgh University, Berlin, and Vienna. Master of Arts Of Cambridge University (Honoris Causa). Doctor of Laws (Toronto).
Doctor of Medicine Edinburgh.
Career
President Royal Medical Society, 1878. Engaged in teaching first Anatomy and then Pathology, and in carrying on original investigations on these subjects in the Minto House School of Medicine, the University of Edinburgh, the EdinRoyal Infirmary, and the Laboratory of the Royal College, of Physicians, Edinburgh, 1879-1890. Acted as Assistant Commissioner to the Royal Commission on Tuberculosis, 1892-1895.
Lieutenant-Colonel, Staff, Royal Army Medical Corps (Territorial Force). Professor of Pathology, Cambridge University, since 1899. Examiner in Pathology and Bacteriology, Indian Medical Service.
Member of Royal Commission on Tuberculosis, 1902. Member of Executive Committee Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Honourable Fellow Henry Phipp’s Institute Philadelphia, 1902. Formerly Director of the Laboratories of the Conjoint Board of the Royal Colleges of Physicians (London) and Surgeons (England). Honourable.
Membership
Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh. Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Clubs: Savage, National Liberal, Carnarvonshire, Roys ton, Gog-Magog.
Interests
Golf, cycling; for many years President of the Edinburgh University Athletic Club. Pres. British Medical Temperance Association.
Connections
Spouse 1881, Haniett Elizabeth St. Clair Erskine, 2nddaughter of James Yates, Edinburgh.