Gweneth Whitteridge

Gweneth Whitteridge FRCP (20 October 1910 - 3 September 1993), a British scholar of medical history, was president of the History of Medicine Society of the Royal Society of Medicine of the United Kingdom from 1983 to 1985. She studied Mediaeval French at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford from 1929 and then palaeography at the Sorbonne, before becoming archivist to St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, of which she wrote brief histories.[1]

Works

• The Royal Hospital of Saint Bartholomew (1952)
• A brief history of the Hospital of Saint Bartholomew [with Veronica Stokes] (1963)
• William Harvey and the circulation of the blood (1969)

References

1. Payne, L. M. "Gweneth Whitteridge". munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk. Royal College of Physicians. Retrieved 20 June 2018.