William Sharpey [SEP] date of death
William Sharpey
Prof William Sharpey FRS FRSE LLD (1 April 1802 – 11 April 1880) was a Scottish anatomist and physiologist. He is described as the "Father of British Physiology".
Early life.
He was born in Arbroath on 1 April 1802 the youngest son of the five childre Mary Balfour and Henry Sharpy (sic), a shipowner from Folkestone who died before Sharpey was born.
William was educated at the high school in Arbroath and in November 1817 began studies at the University of Edinburgh,
World War I.
Following the death of his eldest son, John Sharpey Schafer, the name of ‘Sharpey', which had been given as a middle name, was hyphenated to Schafer, becoming thereafter (from 1918) Sharpey-Schafer. This was both in memory of his son, and also to perpetuate the name of his teacher, William Sharpey.
His grandson, Edward Peter Sharpey-Schafer, was Professor of Medicine at St Thomas' Hospital, London from 1948 until his death in 1963.
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