Cecil Voge

Dr Cecil Innes Bothwell Voge FRSE PhD (1898–1978) was a 20th-century Scottish physician, biochemist and geneticist. A specialist in contraception, in authorship he usually appears as C. I. B. Voge.

Life
46 Gilmore Place, Edinburgh

Vogue was born in Edinburgh in 1898 the son of Anton Voge of 46 Gilmore Place.[1] The house dates from the 18th century and is one of the largest on the street.[2]

In the First World War he joined the Royal Flying Corps as a Second Lieutenant.[3]

In 1930 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh for his contributions to chemistry. His proposers were Andrew Pritchard, William Rutherford, George James Allman and John Hutton Balfour.[4]

In 1933 he undertook an important study, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and under the direction of F A E Crew at the Animal Breeding Research Department in Edinburgh. This study of the risks and benefits of contraception was called the 'Voge Study but caused a huge rift with Crew, who thereafter called him a traitor to science, for adding emotion into the study.[5]

Voge retired to Hampstead in 1963.[6] He died on 19 June 1978. He is buried in Grange Cemetery in south Edinburgh.

Family

He married Lily around 1930. Their children included Cecily J B Voge and Anthony W B Voge.

Publications
  • The Human Blood Groups (1929)
  • The Present State of the Contraceptive Trade (1933)
  • The Chemistry and Physics of Contraception (1933)
  • Medicinal Uses of Chlorophyll (1948)

References


  1. Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1898
  2. City of Edinburgh Council, listed building records, 46 Gilmore Place
  3. London Gazette 12 March 1918
  4. Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2019-02-17.
  5. Disciplining Reproduction, by Prof Adele E Clarke
  6. Electoral Register: Hampstead 1963
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