Bertram Windle

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British scientist, educationalist and writer

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::summary British scientist, educationalist and writer ::

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| honorific_prefix = Sir | name = Bertram Windle | honorific_suffix = | image = Bertram Windle.jpg | caption = Professor Bertram C. A. Windle. | birth_name = Bertram Coghill Alan Windle | birth_date = | birth_place = Mayfield, Staffordshire | death_date = | death_place = Toronto | field = Comparative anatomy | work_institutions = | alma_mater = Trinity College | academic_advisors = | notable_students = | known_for = | awards = | signature = Sir Bertram Coghill Alan Windle, (8 May 1858 – 14 February 1929) was a British anatomist, administrator, archaeologist, scientist, educationalist and writer.

Biography

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He was born at Mayfield Vicarage, in Staffordshire, where his father, the Reverend Samuel Allen Windle, a Church of England clergyman, was vicar. He attended Trinity College, where he graduated B.A. in 1879. He also served as Librarian of the University Philosophical Society in the 1877–78 session.

In 1891 he was appointed dean of the medical faculty of Queen's College, Birmingham. Queen's College's medical faculty became the medical faculty of Mason Science College in the early 1890s, and then became the medical faculty of the University of Birmingham in 1900. Windle was professor of anatomy and anthropology and first Dean of the Medical Faculty at Birmingham University. He was a member of the Teachers′ Registration Council until he resigned in late 1902. In 1904 he accepted the presidency of Queen's College, Cork. He acted as president of the university (which became known as University College Cork in 1908) until 1918, when he moved to Canada.

During Windle’s time as president of University College Cork, he worked with John Robert O’Connell on the Honan Bequest which resulted in the building of the Honan Chapel with the inclusion of stained glass windows by An Túr Gloine and by Harry Clarke.

During his medical training days, Windle was an atheist. He later converted to Catholicism. He was a critic of Darwinism and took influence from St. George Jackson Mivart. Historian David N. Livingstone has noted that Windle favoured a Catholic version of neo-Lamarckism.

Windle was a vitalist. Historian Peter J. Bowler has written that Windle was "one of the few biologists to defend an outright vitalism."

Family

Windle married twice, first in 1886 to Madoline Hudson, and in 1901 to Edith Mary Nazer. He died in 1929 aged 71.

Honours

Windle was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1899. In 1909, he was made a knight of St. Gregory the Great by Pius X. In 1912, he was made a Knight Bachelor and therefore granted the title sir. He was knighted by King George V during a ceremony at Buckingham Palace on 6 March 1912.

Works

Selected articles

Miscellany

References

References

  1. (1907). "Windle, Bertram Coghill Alan".
  2. (1929). "Sir Bertram Windle: The Man and His Work". The Catholic World.
  3. (1960). "Sir Bertram Windle (1858–1929)". Hermathena.
  4. (12 November 1902). "Notice".
  5. (1958). "Bertram Coghill Alan Windle". CCHA Report.
  6. "Professor Windle – Additional Information". University College Cork.
  7. [[Peter J. Bowler. Bowler, Peter J]]. (2001). ''Reconciling Science and Religion: The Debate in Early-Twentieth-Century Britain''. University of Chicago Press. p. 41. {{ISBN. 0-226-06858-7
  8. Engels, Eve-Marie. (2008). ''The Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe: Volume 1''. Continuum. pp. 74-75. {{ISBN. 978-0-8264-5833-9
  9. Livingstone, David N. (2009). ''Evolution and Religion''. In [[Michael Ruse]]; Joseph Travis. ''Evolution: The First Four Billion Years''. Harvard University Press. p. 355. {{ISBN. 978-0-674-03175-3
  10. Allitt, Patrick. (1997). ''Catholic Converts: British and American Intellectuals Turn to Rome''. Cornell University Press. p. 171. {{ISBN. 0-8014-8663-7
  11. Bowler, Peter J. (2001). ''Reconciling Science and Religion: The Debate in Early-Twentieth-Century Britain''. University of Chicago Press. p. 167. {{ISBN. 0-226-06858-7
  12. [https://web.archive.org/web/20140811003221/http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v123/n3097/abs/123354a0.html "Sir Bertram Windle, F.R.S,"] ''Nature'', Vol. 123, March 1929, p. 354.
  13. "The Late Sir Bertram Windle," ''The British Medical Journal,'' Vol. 1, No. 3564, 1929, p. 792.
  14. "Complete List of Royal Society Fellows 1660-2007". [[Royal Society]].
  15. 'WINDLE, Sir Bertram Coghill Alan', ''[[Who Was Who]]'', A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U219343 accessed 28 Oct 2017]
  16. {{London Gazette. (8 March 1912)
  17. [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=22&dat=19200316&id=BncDAAAAIBAJ&sjid=tSkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6605,4760150 "Is Not Foe to Cause of Science,"] ''The Toronto World'', 16 March 1920, p. 4.

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