Gweneth Whitteridge

Gweneth Whitteridge FRCP (20 October 1910 – 3 September 1993), a British scholar of medical history, was president of the History of Medicine Society of the Royal Society of Medicine of the United Kingdom from 1983 to 1985. She was an acknowledged authority on the English physician William Harvey and his works.

Life Gweneth Whitteridge was born on 20 October 1910 in London.

After lecturing in French at the University of Wales, Bangor and Oxford during the Second World War, Whitteridge was appointed as archivist to St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. She wrote a histories of the hospital in 1952 and again in 1963. Whitteridge became known as a world authority on English physician William Harvey. In 1953 Whitteridge was asked by Geoffrey Keynes to undertake the translation and transcription of an unpublished work of Harvey, De motu locali animalium. Her translation was published in 1959. Whitteridge was elected a Fellow of the Academie Internationale de l’Histoire des Sciences and an honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.

Works The Royal Hospital of Saint Bartholomew (1952) A brief history of the Hospital of Saint Bartholomew [with Veronica Stokes] (1963) William Harvey and the circulation of the blood (1969)