Percy Theodore Herring

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Percy Theodore Herring (3 November 1872 - 24 October 1967) was a physician and physiologist, notable for first describing Herring bodies in the posterior pituitary gland.

He was born in Yorkshire, England, on 3rd November 1872, the son of Edmund Herring and schooled in Christchurch, New Zealand. He attended the University of Otago, New Zealand, and the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, from which he graduated with an MB in 1896.

He married Mary Marshall Callender on the 7th April 1905. They had four children. From 1908 until 1948 he held the Chandos Chair of Medicine and Physiology at the Bute Medical School, University of St Andrews, Scotland, during which time he described Herring bodies, in 1908. He also carried out work on Insulin, funded by the Medical Research Council. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1916, and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. He was Vice-President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh from 1934-1937.

He was awarded the postgraduate degrees of MD by the University of Edinburgh and LLD by the University of St Andrews.

He died on 24 October 1967 in St Andrews.