Barcroft, Professor Henry

The following is an interim description which may change when detailed cataloguing takes place in future.

Experimental notebooks, charts and diagrams with a few letters and other papers.

c.1942-1985

Uncatalogued: 2 transfer boxes and 1 oversize volume

These papers were given to the library at Wellcome Collection in 1998 by Barcroft's son.

Henry Barcroft (1904-1998) was the son of the eminent physiologist Joseph Barcroft and went on to become distinguished in the same field. He qualified in medicine in 1933 and, after a lectureship in the Physiology Department at University College London, in 1935 he became Dunnville Professor of Physiology at The Queen's University of Belfast. Subsequently, from 1948 until his retirement in 1971, he held the chair at the Sherrington School of Physiology at St. Thomas's Hospital Medical School in London.

Barcroft took a particular interest in blood flow to the skin and muscles of the limbs. In 1953 he published, with H.J.C. Swan, Sympathetic Control of Human Blood Vessels, the first in the Physiological Society's series of monographs.

In addition to the Physiological Society, Barcroft was also active in the Research Defence Society, of which he was Chair 1969-1972, and was also a Trustee of the Wellcome Trust, 1966-1975.

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