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Ernest Henry Starling

1866 - 1927

Born

17 April 1866

Barnsbury Square, North London, England

Died

02/05/1927

Steamship Ariguani, Kingston harbour, Jamaica, West Indies

Nationality
British
Gender
Male
Date of election for Royal Society fellowship
01/06/1899
Age at the time of election for Royal Society fellowship
33
Occupation
Physiologist
Relationships
Parents: Matthew Henry Starling, clerk to the crown, Bombay, and Ellen Mathilda, daughter of Henry George Watkins, artist and engraver, of Islington. Spouse: Florence Amelia (b. 1860/61), daughter of Sir Edward Henry Sieveking, widow of Leonard Charles Wooldridge (21 December 1891). Children: One son and three daughters. Great grand-children: Boris Starling (born 1969) and Belinda Starling (1972–2006), writers. Brother in law: William Maddock Bayliss (FRS 1903)