The physical basis of personality / by V.H. Mottram.

  • Vernon Mottram
Date:
[1944]
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    Howard Coster THE AUTHOR professor V. H. M ottram was born in Tewkesbury in 1882, migrated with family to Bristol in the same year, and to London in 1887. Educated at Caterham School and St. O laves Grammar School. Sizar, scholar and fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1901-11. Senior Demonstrator of Physiology in Liverpool University, 1911-14. Lecturer in Physiology in McGill University, Montreal, 1914-16, and University of Toronto, 1916. The years 1916-18 were spent in tuberculosis sanatoria. From 1916-18 Senior Science Master of Caterham School. Biological research post with Lever Bros., 1919-20. Professor of Physiology in the University of London at King's College of Household and Social Science, 1920-44. His hobbies are books, art, photography and music. Always interested in border line and new subjects—e.g. chemical physiology in its earlier days at Cambridge, and, later, dietetics, which has become his main preoccupation. Is convinced that only by developing a scientific approach to life can any progress, material or spiritual, be made. Belongs to no political party, but after the 1935 election swore he would vote for even the wildest communist if the other choice is a representative of vested interests, and now swears that if the ruling classes repeat their trick of 1918 and onwards after this war he will get a soap-box and preach red revolution in the streets of our cities.