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Bryan Harold Cabot Matthews

1906 - 1986

Born

14 June 1906

Clifton, Bristol, England, United Kingdom

Died

22 July 1986

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom

Nationality
British
Gender
Male
Date of election for Royal Society fellowship
14/03/1940
Age at the time of election for Royal Society fellowship
33
Occupation
Physiologist
Relationships
Parents: Harold Evan Matthews, manufacturing pharmacist, who had a factory and shop in Clifton, and Sarah Susannah (Ruby) Harrison, pharmacist. Brother: Leonard Harrison Matthews FRS 1954 Spouse: 1) (m. 1926) Rachel Katherine (d. 1994), daughter of Gustav Eckhard, Manchester shipping agent, and sister of the wife of the economist F. W. Paish; 2) (m. 1970) Audrey Wentworth, widow of Air Vice-Marshal William Kilpatrick Stewart and daughter of Francis Tyndale, a lieutenant-colonel in the Royal Army Medical Corps. Children: One son and two daughters from his first marriage.