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Rupert Willis

1898-1980

Born at Yarram, Victoria, Australia 24th December 1898. Died 26th March 1980 at Birkenhead.

Married Alice Margaret Tolhurst 1924

Graduated University of Melbourne (MB, BS 1922; MD 1929; DSc 1932)

Professor of Pathology, Leeds 1950-1955.

Retired early due to ill health and created a private laboratory at his cottage, Riverside, in Cornwall with MRC grants.

Assessed the effects of smoking in rats in 1959 at his private laboratory and became one of the first anti smoking campaigners.

Matthew Stewart

1885-1956

Born at Dalmellington, Ayrshire, 4th May 1885. Died 7th May 1956

Married his assistant, Dr Clara Eglinton 1913

Graduated Glasgow University 1907

Editor Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology for 22 years, 1934-1956

Came to Leeds from Glasgow as a Clinical Pathologist 1910, recalled from a territorial Hospital in France shortly before the end of the 1st World War and was appointed the chair of pathology in Leeds 1918-1951

Built the Leeds School of Pathology, the Algernon Firth Building

Edward Brotherton

1856-1930 The Brotherton Collection is the name of the private library of rare books and manuscripts created in the 1920s by Leeds University Library's great benefactor Lord Brotherton of Wakefield and presented to the University after his death in 1930. With exceptional foresight, Brotherton and his family also gave the Library funds to develop the Collection in perpetuity. This endowment for acquisitions is still uniquely generous for an academic library in the UK and has enabled the extensive, focussed growth of the Collection, now containing over 50,000 printed books and many more manuscript items.

Lord Brotherton took pleasure in welcoming scholars and other visitors to his private library and when he offered to build the magnificent Brotherton Library for the University, he undoubtedly saw it as the future public location for his collection, as it is today. When the new building opened in 1936, the presence of the Brotherton Collection transformed the Library's standing as a centre for research and learning

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