Henry Roy Dean

Henry Roy Dean (19 February 1879 – 13 February 1961), also known as Prof. H. R. Dean, was a professor of Pathology at the University of Cambridge and Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge.

Biography Henry Roy Dean was born in Bournemouth, Hampshire (now Dorset), England to Joshua Dean and Elizabeth Dean, née MacCormac. Elizabeth Dean was a member of a distinguished Northern Irish medical family and she was the daughter of Henry MacCormac and the sister of Sir William MacCormac. Dean was educated at Sherborne School and he attended with first-class honours the School of Natural Science at New College, Oxford, to be graduated MB BCh in 1904, after medical training at St Thomas' Hospital, where he was medical registrar and after resident assistant physician. After a senior demyship at Magdalen College, Oxford, he took MRCP in 1906, a Radcliffe Travelling Fellowship in 1909 (to study at Wassermann Laboratory, Berlin), D.M. in 1912 and FRCP in 1913. In 1946 he improved his course (58 lectures) with a training scheme for the would-be pathologists (2 or 3 years of experience of laboratory work). Apart his own works, he guided others to their subsequent experimental works, as well as to their publications on immunology.

From 1929 to 1954 he was Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge (he was a Fellow there since he came to Cambridge in 1922) and from 1937 to 1939 Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. He was also Chairman of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (1941–1956), member of the Medical Research Council (MRC), founder of the East Anglian Pathologists Club, and, from 1920 to 1954, secretary of the Pathological Society. Working for various universities he became: honorary Legum Doctor (LL.D) at University of Aberdeen and at Western Reserve University, honorary Doctor of Science (D.Sc) at University of Liverpool, and Honorary Fellow of New College, University of Oxford (from 1953). During the second world war he organized several blood transfusion donor services, while the department also accommodated the Galton Laboratory blood-grouping unit and the MRC Emergency Public Health Laboratory. After the war the Department of Pathology rose again, more closely bound to medicine. and National Center for Biotechnology Information (for all the other works).