Alfred Henry Garrod
1846–79
Zoologist. Son of Alfred Baring Garrod. Studied medicine at King’s College, London, and natural sciences at St John’s College, Cambridge; graduated December 1871. Elected prosector, Zoological Society of London, June 1871. Fellow, St John’s College, Cambridge, 1873; professor of comparative anatomy, King’s College, London, 1874; Fullerian Professor of physiology, Royal Institution of Great Britain, 1875. As a student, researched the causes of varying body temperature and developed an improved sphygmograph; later specialised in bird anatomy. FRS 1876.
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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