Percival Hartley

Not to be confused with Percival Horton-Smith Hartley.

Sir Percival Hartley CBE MC FRS^[1] (28 May 1881 – 16 February 1957) was an English immunologist who was head of the Medical Research Council (MRC) Biological Standards Division for 44 years.^{[3][2][4][5][6]}

Sir Percival Hartley
Born	Percival Hartley 28 May 1881 Calverley, Yorkshire
Died	16 February 1957 (age 75) London
Alma mater	University of Leeds University of London
Spouse	Olga Parnell^[2]
Children	Two daughters^[2]
Awards	CBE Military Cross Doctor of Science FRS^[1] Knight Bachelor
Scientific career
Institutions	Royal Army Medical Corps Medical Research Council National Institute for Medical Research Sir William Dunn School of Pathology University of Oxford Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Early life

Harvey was born at Calverley, Yorkshire, England, the son of William Thompson Hartley, a coal merchant.^[7] He attended Bradford Technical College and then the University of Leeds where he qualified BSc in 1905. He then won a scholarship to the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine in London from 1906 to 1908. He gained a Doctor of Science degree from the University of London in 1909.^[2][8]

Career

Hartley worked in India for four years then returned to the Lister Institute in 1913 but joined up with the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) and served as a captain from 1915 to 1919 during the First World War. He won the Military Cross in 1917.

Hartley then worked for three years at the Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories and in 1922 joined the National Institute for Medical Research where he became director of biological samples. He stayed till 1946 when he joined the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.^[2] He worked at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology from 1949 to 1953 and at the Lister Institute again from 1949 to 1953.^[2] In the 1940s he worked with Ralph Kekwick.^{[citation needed]}

Awards and honours

He was awarded the CBE in 1922 and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1937.^[1] He was knighted in 1944 for work on penicillin.^[3]

Personal life

He married Olga Parnell (d.1950) in 1920 and they had two daughters. He died in London.^[2]

References

1. Dale, H. H. (1957). "Percival Hartley 1881-1957". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 3: 80–100. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1957.0006. JSTOR 769353. S2CID 73111783.
2. "Percival Hartley". British Medical Journal. 1 (5016): 466–467. 1957. PMC 1974479. PMID 13396285.
3. "Obituary: Sir Percival Hartley". The Times. 18 February 1957. p. 12.
4. Hartley, S. P. (1949). "Materials Used in Great Britain for the Active Immunisation of Man Against Diphtheria". Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology. 1 (7): 425–435. doi:10.1111/j.2042-7158.1949.tb12442.x. PMID 18133067. S2CID 33302658.
5. Hartley, P.; Tulloch, W. J.; Anderson, M.; Davidson, W. A.; Grant, J.; Jamieson, W. M.; Neubauer, C.; Norton, R.; Robertson, G. H. (1951). "A study of diphtheria in two areas of Great Britain; a summary of Medical Research Council Special Report No. 272". Monthly Bulletin of the Ministry of Health and the Public Health Laboratory Service. 10: 143–147. PMID 14852897.
6. Long, D. A. (1957). "Sir Percival Hartley". Nature. 179 (4564): 806. doi:10.1038/179806a0. PMID 13430702.
7. 1901 England Census
8. 'HARTLEY, Sir Percival', Who Was Who, (Subscription based) A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 2012, accessed 21 April 2013 (subscription required)