- Percy Theodore Herring
Percy Theodore Herring (
3 November 1872 -24 October 1967 ) was aphysician andphysiologist , notable for first describingHerring bodies in the posteriorpituitary gland .He was born in
Yorkshire ,England , on 3rd November 1872, the son of Edmund Herring and schooled inChristchurch ,New Zealand . He attended theUniversity of Otago , New Zealand, and theUniversity of Edinburgh ,Scotland , from which he graduated with an MB in 1896.He married
Mary Marshall Callender on the 7th April 1905. They had four children. From 1908 until 1948 he held the Chandos Chair of Medicine and Physiology at theBute Medical School ,University of St Andrews , Scotland, during which time he described Herring bodies, in 1908. He also carried out work onInsulin , funded by the Medical Research Council. He was elected a Fellow of theRoyal Society of Edinburgh in 1916, and a Fellow of theRoyal College of Physicians of Edinburgh . He was Vice-President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh from 1934-1937.He was awarded the postgraduate degrees of MD by the University of Edinburgh and LLD by the University of St Andrews.
He died on
24 October 1967 inSt Andrews .
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