H. P. Newsholme

Henry Pratt Newsholme (27 August 1885 – 21 December 1955) D.M., F.R.C.P., D.P.H. was a British physician and writer.

Newsholme was born at Secunderabad, India. He was the son of Rev. B. Pratt Newholme and was educated at Brighton Grammar School (1903) and Balliol College, Oxford (1907).

He obtained a B.Sc. with first-class honours in physiology from the natural science school in Oxford. Newsholme held deep religious views which he promoted in several books, Evolution and Redemption (1933), Christian Ethics and Social Health (1937) and Matter, Man, and Miracle (1951).

Newsholme was received into the Catholic Church in 1939 with his wife who he married in 1914. He was elected president of the Midland Catholic Medical Society in 1949. He had three sons and two daughters.

Selected publications

Preventive Medicine and the Healthy Mind (1926) Health, Disease and Integration (1929) Evolution and Redemption (1933) Christian Ethics and Social Health (1937) Matter, Man, and Miracle (1951)