Marmaduke Sheild [SEP] occupation
Marmaduke Sheild
Arthur Marmaduke Sheild (1858-1922) was a surgeon, whose career was curtailed by a self-inflicted accident while operating, and a benefactor of Cambridge University, which named its chair in pharmacology in his honour.
Education.
Marmaduke Sheild was born in 1858 in Landawke, near Laugharne, Carmarthenshire. In 1875, he began a distinguished student career at St George's Hospital winning the Brackenbury Prize and two William Brown Exhibitions before graduating MRCS in 1879. After starting as a house surgeon at St
Sheild Professor of Pharmacology
The Sheild Professorship of Pharmacology is the senior professorship in pharmacology at the University of Cambridge. It is named in honour of Marmaduke Sheild.
The position was originally established on 7 June 1946 as a personal chair for the tenure of Ernest Basil Verney. On 11 March 1961 the professorship was re-established on a permanent basis.
List of Sheild Professors of Pharmacology.
- 1946–1962 Ernest Basil Verney
- 1962–1971 Arnold Burgen
- 1973–1978 Gustav Victor Rudolf Born
- 1979–1999 Alan Cuthbert