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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 ...
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 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.
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 ...
Ferrier was the only son of the physician and neurologist Sir David Ferrier, and a nephew (through his mother) of the painter Ernest Albert Waterlow. [1] [2]Educated at Marlborough College, Ferrier started his career as an apprentice at the practice of Aston Webb, but left to start his own practice at the age of just 23. [2]
Sir Joseph Noel Paton FRSA (13 December 1821 – 26 December 1901) was a Scottish artist, illustrator and sculptor. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He was also a poet [ 3 ] and had an interest in, and knowledge of, Scottish folklore and Celtic legends .
Sir Robert Andrew Henry Turing, 10th Baronet (1895–1970), son of his predecessor; 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
Victor Ferrier Noel-Paton was born in Edinburgh in 1900, son of Joane Mary and Frederick Waller Ferrier Noel-Paton, a senior official of the Government of India, sometime Director-General of Commercial Intelligence. The extended family lived in a large Georgian house owned by his grandfather, Joseph Noel Paton, at 33 George Square. [1]