Frederick Walker Mott

Sir Frederick Walker Mott FRS (23 October 1853 Brighton, Sussex - 8 June 1926 Birmingham, Warwickshire) was one of the pioneers of biochemistry in Britain. ^[1] He is noted for his work in neuropathology and endocrine glands in relation to mental disorder, and consequently as psychiatrist and sociologist. He was Croonian Lecturer to the Royal College of Physicians for the year 1900.^[2]

Timeline

1884 Lecturer in physiology at the Charing Cross Hospital Medical School
1895 Director of the London County Council laboratory at Claybury Asylum. ^[3]
1896 Fellow of the Royal Society ^[4]
1909–12 Fullerian Professor of Physiology and Comparative Anatomy
1910 The Brain And The Voice In Speech And Song
1916 The Effects of High Explosives Upon the Central Nervous System The Lancet 1 (1916): 331-338
1919 Knighthood
1923 The Action of Alcohol on Man (London, New York: Longmans Green) with Ernest Henry Starling (1866-1927), Robert Hutchison (1871-)
1925-26 President of the Medico-Psychological Association
1926 President of the Royal Medico-Psychological Association, the Royal Charter having been granted in March 1926

Academic offices
Preceded by William Stirling	Fullerian Professor of Physiology 1909–1912	Succeeded by William Bateson

Persondata
Name	Mott, Sir Frederick Walker
Alternative names
Short description	Neuropathologist and biochemist
Date of birth	23 October 1853
Place of birth	Brighton, Sussex, England
Date of death	8 June 1926
Place of death	Birmingham, Warwickshire, England