Victor Horsley
| Sir Victor Alexander Haden Horsley | |
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| Born |
14 April 1857 Kensington, London, England |
| Died | 16 July 1916 (aged 59) Amarah, Iraq |
| Education |
Cranbrook School, Kent University College London |
| Known for | Pioneering work in neuroscience |
| Medical career | |
| Profession | Surgeon, physician |
| Institutions |
University College Hospital Brown Institute National Hospital for Paralysis and Epilespsy |
| Specialism | neurosurgery |
| Research |
epilepsy myxedema cretinism trigeminal neuralgia |
| Notable prizes |
Knighthood Royal Medal (1894) |
Sir Victor Alexander Haden Horsley, FRS (14 April 1857 – 16 July 1916) was an accomplished scientist and professor. He was born in Kensington, London. He was educated at Cranbrook School, Kent, and studied medicine at University College London and in Berlin, Germany (1881), and in the same year started his career as a house surgeon and registrar at the University College Hospital. From 1884 to 1890 Horsley was Professor-Superintendent of the Brown Institute. In 1886 he was appointed as Assistant Professor of Surgery at the National Hospital for Paralysis and Epilepsy, and as a Professor of Pathology (1887–1896) and Professor of Clinical Surgery (1899–1902) at University College London. He was a supporter for women's suffrage, and was an opponent of tobacco and alcohol.
Sir Victor Horsley was born in Kensington, London, the son of Rosamund Haden and John Callcott Horsley R.A. His given names, "Victor Alexander", were given to him by Queen Victoria.
In 1883 he became engaged to Eldred Bramwell, daughter of Sir Frederick Bramwell. Subsequently, on 4 October 1887, Victor and Eldred married at St. Margaret's, Westminster. They had two sons, Siward and Oswald, and one daughter, Pamela.
He was knighted in 1902.
Victor Horsley was a champion of many causes. One of his primary life's crusades was the temperance movement. Having observed that many injuries admitted to the hospital were due to alcohol, Horsley threw himself into becoming a temperance reformer. He soon rose up to the position of a vice-president of the National Temperance League and the president of the British Medical Temperance Association. In 1907, along with Dr. Mary Sturge he published a book on alcoholism called Alcohol and the Human Body.
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