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Sir Richard Lawrence Himsworth (14 June 1937 – 17 February 2020) was a British endocrinologist and public health administrator.
Biography
[edit]Born in London, he was the second son of Sir Harold Himsworth.[1][2] He was educated at Westminster School, and in 1956 entered Trinity College, Cambridge, later studying medicine at University College London.[3]
Himsworth was appointed to a MRC fellowship at Columbia University in 1970. He was made Regius Professor of Medicine at the University of Aberdeen in 1985.[3]
Personal life
[edit]He married Sara Margaret Tattersall (born 1939) in 1966, whom he had two sons and a daughter.[3]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Richard Lawrence Himsworth | RCP Museum". history.rcplondon.ac.uk.
- ↑ "Richard Himsworth - ARU". www.aru.ac.uk.
- 1 2 3 Gray, John (2004). "Himsworth, Sir Harold Percival (1905–1993), physician". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/52114. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
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