C. David Marsden

(Charles) David Marsden (14 April 1938 – 29 September 1998), FRS

Education and early life

Marsden was born in Croydon in 1938. He trained in medicine at St Thomas' Hospital London. He was awarded intercalated Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in 1960 on the subject of pigmentation of the substantia nigra. He obtained his Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) in 1963, and became a member of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP) in 1965.

Marsden's major works were in movement disorders. He established the UK Parkinson's Disease Society´s brain bank.

Marsden collaborated at King's College with Peter Jenner and John Rothwell. and over 208 book chapters. He was, for ten years, editor of the Movement Disorders Journal and the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry; he was also on the editorial boards of 21 other journals

Awards and honours He received several awards during his lifetime, including being elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1983 and Honorary Doctor of Science (DSc) from the University of London in 1984. In 1988 he received the Ellison-Cliffe Medal from the Royal Society of Medicine.