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Sir David Ferrier FRS (13 January 1843 – 19 March 1928) was a pioneering Scottish neurologist and psychologist.Ferrier conducted experiments on the brains of animals such as monkeys and in 1881 became the first scientist to be prosecuted under the Cruelty to Animals Act, 1876 which had been enacted following a major public debate over vivisection.
The Ferrier Lecture is a Royal Society lectureship given every three years "on a subject related to the advancement of natural knowledge on the structure and function of the nervous system". [1] It was created in 1928 to honour the memory of Sir David Ferrier , a neurologist who was the first British scientist to electronically stimulate the ...
Susan Ferrier was the youngest daughter of Helen Coutts (1741–1797) (daughter of Robert Coutts, a farmer near Montrose) and James Ferrier (1744–1829), Writer to the Signet and one of the principal clerks of the Court of Session, in which office he was a colleague of Sir Walter Scott. Her father came from Linlithgow.
Vice Admiral Sir Stephen Ferrier Berthon KCB (24 August 1922 – 30 January 2007) was a Royal Navy officer who became Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Operational Requirements). Naval career [ edit ]
Sir John Leslie Turing, 11th Baronet (1895–1987), (younger twin) brother of his predecessor Sir John Dermot Turing , 12th Baronet (born 1961), great-great-grandnephew of the 7th Baronet Heir Apparent: John Malcolm Ferrier Turing (born 1988), son
Townhouse at 15 Heriot Row, Edinburgh. Ferrier was born at 15 Heriot Row [3] in Edinburgh, the son of John Ferrier, writer to the signet.He was educated at the Royal High School, the University of Edinburgh and Magdalen College, Oxford, and subsequently, his metaphysical tastes having been fostered by his intimate friend, Sir William Hamilton, spent some time at Heidelberg studying German ...
With his wife Bertha he had four known children: William, probably the eldest, who inherited the estates in Normandy and was a supporter of Duke Robert Curthose. [1] ...
Kathleen Mary Ferrier CBE (22 April 1912 – 8 October 1953) [1] was an English contralto singer who achieved an international reputation as a stage, concert and recording artist, with a repertoire extending from folksong and popular ballads to the classical works of Bach, Brahms, Mahler and Elgar.