1. Macdonald Critchley CBE was a British neurologist.
10 Facts About MacDonald Critchley
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MacDonald Critchley was former president of the World Federation of Neurology, and the author of over 200 published articles on neurology and 20 books, including The Parietal Lobes, Aphasiology, and biographies of James Parkinson and Sir William Gowers.
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Macdonald Critchley was born at Bristol, son of gas collector Arthur Frank Critchley and Rosina Matilda ; he was educated in Bristol and received his medical degree from the University of Bristol.
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MacDonald Critchley was a Registrar in 1927, and he was appointed to the staff as a physician in the following year and later became Dean of the Institute at Queen Square.
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MacDonald Critchley's influence spread throughout the neurological world by teaching and writings and he later became President of the World Federation of Neurology.
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MacDonald Critchley studied under Gordon Morgan Holmes, Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson and Francis Walshe.
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MacDonald Critchley started a Headache Clinic at King's College Hospital and was one of the founders of the "British Migraine Trust".
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MacDonald Critchley delivered a paper at the "First Migraine Symposium" in 1966 on "Migraine: from Cappadocia to Queen Square", combining his clinical interest with his love of history.
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MacDonald Critchley had married twice: firstly to Edna Morris from 1927 until her death in 1974, with whom he had two sons and secondly Eileen Hargreaves, whom he married in 1974.
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MacDonald Critchley lived at Hughlings House, at Nether Stowey in Somerset, where he died on 15 October 1997, aged 97.