Philip Pye-Smith

Philip Henry Pye-Smith
Born	30 August 1839 London, England
Died	23 May 1914 London, England
Nationality	English
Alma mater	University of London
Scientific career
Fields	Medicine

Philip Henry Pye-Smith FRS FRCP (30 August 1839 – 23 May 1914) was an English physician, medical scientist and educator. His interest was physiology, specialising in skin diseases.[1][2]

Life

Philip Pye-Smith was born in 1839 at Billiter Square, London EC3, England, the son of Ebenezer and Mary Anne Pye-Smith. He was educated at Mill Hill School and University College London before pursuing a medical career at Guy's Hospital and University of London.

The Pye-Smith tomb in Abney Park Cemetery

In 1894 he married Emily Gertrude Foulger (1860-1923), the daughter of Arthur Foulger and Martha Barclay.^[citation needed]

Pye-Smith died in 1914 and was buried in the family tomb at Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington in north-east London. The tomb lies on the east side of the main southern path known as Dr Watt's Walk. His wife, Emily Gertrude Pye-Smith lies with him. The grave also commemorates the loss of their only child, Lieutenant Phillip Howson Guy Pye-Smith of The King's (Liverpool Regiment), who was killed during the Battle of Arras on 15 May 1917.[3]

Career highlights

• Elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1870.
• Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1886.
• Representative to Senate of the University of London from 1902 to 1908, and was vice-chancellor from 1903 to 1905.
• Representative to the General Medical Council from 1899 to 1909.
• Presentation of Lumleian lectures "The Ætiology of Disease" in 1892.
• Presentation of Harveian Oration "Pathology as the Basis of Rational Medicine" in 1893.
• Publication: An Introduction to the study of diseases of the skin in 1893.
• Publication: Revised Principles and practice of medicine by Charles Hilton Fagge in 1888.
• Vice-chancellor of University of London
• President of the Pathological Society of London, 1907

Memorial

In St. Mark, North Audley St, Westminster there are two-stained glass windows in the memory of Philip Henry Pye-Smith.

References

1. "Philip Henry Pye-Smith, M.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.S". BMJ. 1 (2787): 1215–1216. 1914. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.2787.1215. PMC 2301248.
2. Philip Henry Pye-Smith. Royal College of Physicians of London
3. "Casualty". www.cwgc.org.

External links

• Darwin Correspondence Project
• Royal Society

Academic offices
Preceded by Dr Archibald Robertson	Vice-Chancellor of University of London 1903–1905	Succeeded by Sir Edward Henry Busk