George Pickering (physician)

Sir George White Pickering, FRS (26 June 1904 – 3 September 1980) was an English medical doctor and academic.

Biography

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

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

References

  1. ^ 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.)
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ "Sir George White Pickering". Munk's Roll. Royal College of Physicians of London. 2009. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
  4. ^ "The Governing Body, January 1969" (PDF). Abingdon School.
  5. ^ "Creative Malady". Kirkus Reviews.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ Anonymous. (1976). Creative Malady By G. Pickering. Psychological Medicine 6 (1): 162-162.
  8. ^ Davidson, Claire. (1977). Reviewed Work: Creative Malady by George Pickering. Leonardo 10 (2): 160-161.
  9. ^ "No. 41089". The London Gazette (Supplement). 4 June 1957. pp. 3367–3368.
  10. ^ "No. 41134". The London Gazette. 23 July 1957. p. 4379.
Academic offices
Preceded by Regius Professor of Medicine, University of Oxford
1956 to 1968 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Master of Pembroke College, Oxford
1968 to 1975 		Succeeded by

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