Bertram Windle

Sir Bertram Windle
Professor Bertram C. A. Windle.
Born
Bertram Coghill Alan Windle

(1858-05-08)8 May 1858
Mayfield, Staffordshire
Died14 February 1929(1929-02-14) (aged 70)
Toronto
NationalityEnglish
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom
Alma materTrinity College
Known for Founder, Sigma Chi, Beta Omega Chapter University of Toronto, 1922
Scientific career
FieldsComparative anatomy
InstitutionsSt Michael's College, Toronto

Sir Bertram Coghill Alan Windle, , , , , FRS, FSA, KSG (8 May 1858 – 14 February 1929) was a British anatomist, administrator, archaeologist, scientist, educationalist and writer.[1][2]

Biography

Queen's College, Birmingham, a predecessor college of Birmingham University

He was born at Mayfield Vicarage, in Staffordshire, where his father, the Reverend Samuel Allen Windle, a Church of England clergyman, was vicar.[3] He attended Trinity College, where he graduated B.A. in 1879. He also served as Librarian of the University Philosophical Society in the 1877–78 session.

In 1891 he was appointed dean of the medical faculty of Queen's College, Birmingham. Queen's College's medical faculty became the medical faculty of Mason Science College in the early 1890s, and then became the medical faculty of the University of Birmingham in 1900. Windle was professor of anatomy and anthropology and first Dean of the Medical Faculty at Birmingham University. He was a member of the Teachers′ Registration Council until he resigned in late 1902.[4] In 1904 he accepted the presidency of Queen's College, Cork.[5] He acted as president of the university (which became known as University College Cork in 1908) until 1918, when he moved to Canada.[6]

During Windle’s time as president of University College Cork, he worked with John Robert O’Connell on the Honan Bequest which resulted in the building of the Honan Chapel with the inclusion of stained glass windows by An Túr Gloine and by Harry Clarke.

During his medical training days, Windle was an atheist. He later converted to Catholicism.[7] He was a critic of Darwinism and took influence from St. George Jackson Mivart.[7][8] Historian David N. Livingstone has noted that Windle favoured a Catholic version of neo-Lamarckism.[9]

Windle was a vitalist.[10] Historian Peter J. Bowler has written that Windle was "one of the few biologists to defend an outright vitalism."[11]

Family

Windle married twice, first in 1886 to Madoline Hudson, and in 1901 to Edith Mary Nazer. He died in 1929 aged 71.[12][13]

Honours

Windle was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1899.[14] In 1909, he was made a knight of St. Gregory the Great by Pius X. In 1912, he was made a Knight Bachelor and therefore granted the title sir.[15] He was knighted by King George V during a ceremony at Buckingham Palace on 6 March 1912.[16]

Works

Selected articles

Miscellany

See also

References

  1. ^ "Windle, Bertram Coghill Alan". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. pp. 1915–1916.
  2. ^ Carr, Henry (1929). "Sir Bertram Windle: The Man and His Work". The Catholic World. 129 (770): 165–171.
  3. ^ Horgan, John J (1960). "Sir Bertram Windle (1858–1929)" (PDF). Hermathena. 94: 3.
  4. ^ "Notice". The Times. No. 36923. London. 12 November 1902. p. 10.
  5. ^ McCorkell, E.J. (1958). "Bertram Coghill Alan Windle" (PDF). CCHA Report. 25: 55. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 October 2014. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
  6. ^ "Professor Windle – Additional Information". ucc.ie. University College Cork. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
  7. ^ a b Bowler, Peter J. (2001). Reconciling Science and Religion: The Debate in Early-Twentieth-Century Britain. University of Chicago Press. p. 41. ISBN 0-226-06858-7
  8. ^ Engels, Eve-Marie. (2008). The Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe: Volume 1. Continuum. pp. 74-75. ISBN 978-0-8264-5833-9
  9. ^ Livingstone, David N. (2009). Evolution and Religion. In Michael Ruse; Joseph Travis. Evolution: The First Four Billion Years. Harvard University Press. p. 355. ISBN 978-0-674-03175-3
  10. ^ Allitt, Patrick. (1997). Catholic Converts: British and American Intellectuals Turn to Rome. Cornell University Press. p. 171. ISBN 0-8014-8663-7
  11. ^ Bowler, Peter J. (2001). Reconciling Science and Religion: The Debate in Early-Twentieth-Century Britain. University of Chicago Press. p. 167. ISBN 0-226-06858-7
  12. ^ "Sir Bertram Windle, F.R.S," Nature, Vol. 123, March 1929, p. 354.
  13. ^ "The Late Sir Bertram Windle," The British Medical Journal, Vol. 1, No. 3564, 1929, p. 792.
  14. ^ "Complete List of Royal Society Fellows 1660-2007" (PDF). Royal Society. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
  15. ^ 'WINDLE, Sir Bertram Coghill Alan', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 28 Oct 2017
  16. ^ "No. 28588". The London Gazette. 8 March 1912. pp. 1745–1746.
  17. ^ "Is Not Foe to Cause of Science," The Toronto World, 16 March 1920, p. 4.

Further reading

  • Gwynn, Denis (1960). "Sir Bertram Windle, 1858–1929: A Centenary Tribute". University Review. 2 (3/4): 48–58.
  • Horgan, John J (1932). "Sir Bertram Windle". Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review. 21 (84): 611–626.
  • Keogh, Ann (2004). A Study in Philanthropy: Sir Bertram Windle, Sir John O'Connell, Isabella Honan and the Building of the Honal Chapel, University College Cork. Thesis (M.A.) – Department of History, UCC.
  • Keogh, Ann & Keogh, Dermot (2010). Bertram Windle: The Honan Bequest and The Modernisation of University College Cork 1904–1919. Cork: Cork University Press.
  • McCormick, John F (1933). "Sir Bertram Windle". Thought. 8 (1): 143–145. doi:10.5840/thought19338180.
  • McGuire, Constantine E. (1935). Catholic Builders of the Nation. New York: Catholic Book Company.
  • Neeson, Hugh (1962). The Educational Work of Sir Bertram Windle, F.R.S., (1858–1929) with Particular Reference to his Contributions to Higher Education in Ireland. Thesis (M.A.) – The Queen's University of Belfast.
  • Taylor, Monica (1932). Sir Bertram Windle, a Memoir. London: Longmans, Green and Co.
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