George Pickering (physician)
Sir George White Pickering, FRS (26 June 1904 – 3 September 1980) was an English medical doctor and academic.
Biography
[edit]Pickering was Regius Professor of Medicine at the University of Oxford from 1956 to 1968, and Master of Pembroke College, Oxford, from 1968 to 1975.[1][2][3]
He was a Governor of Abingdon School from 1969 until 1974.[4] Pickering was the author of the book Creative Malady (1974).[5] The book explores creativity and mental illness in the lives of Charles Darwin, Mary Baker Eddy, Sigmund Freud, Florence Nightingale, Marcel Proust and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.[6][7][8]
Honours
[edit]In the 1957 Birthday Honours, it was announced that Pickering was to be made a Knight Bachelor in recognition of his role as Regius Professor of Medicine at the University of Oxford.[9] On 16 July 1957, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace.[10]
Publications
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Badenoch, John (October 2009). "Pickering, Sir George White (1904–1980)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/31546. Retrieved 23 July 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ McMichael, John; Peart, W. S. (November 1980). "George White Pickering. 26 June 1904-3 September 1980". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 28: 431–49. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1982.0017. JSTOR 769906.
- ^ "Sir George White Pickering". Munk's Roll. Royal College of Physicians of London. 2009. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
- ^ "The Governing Body, January 1969" (PDF). Abingdon School.
- ^ "Creative Malady". Kirkus Reviews.
- ^ Anonymous. (1975). Review of Creative Malady: Illness in The Lives and Minds of Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Mary Baker Eddy, Sigmund Freud, Marcel Proust, Elizabeth Barrett Browning. By George Pickering. British Journal of Psychiatry 127: 93.
- ^ Anonymous. (1976). Creative Malady By G. Pickering. Psychological Medicine 6 (1): 162-162.
- ^ Davidson, Claire. (1977). Reviewed Work: Creative Malady by George Pickering. Leonardo 10 (2): 160-161.
- ^ "No. 41089". The London Gazette (Supplement). 4 June 1957. pp. 3367–3368.
- ^ "No. 41134". The London Gazette. 23 July 1957. p. 4379.
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