12 Facts About Ronald Illingworth

Ronald Stanley Illingworth was a British born Yorkshireman and a paediatrician of renown.

Ronald Illingworth was a prolific writer, who wrote some 600 articles and at least 21 books, which were exceedingly popular and sold in large quantities.

Ronald Illingworth was the youngest of three children of Ellen Brayshaw and her husband, Herbert Edward Ronald Illingworth, an architect.

Ronald Illingworth achieved a scholarship in classics to read medicine at the University of Leeds.

Ronald Illingworth worked with the clinical psychologist and paediatrician Arnold Gesell at Yale University.

Ronald Illingworth became interested in and studied Gessels theory on child development, known as Gesell's Maturational Theory.

Ronald Illingworth studied it extensively, advocated for and taught it for the rest of his working life.

Ronald Illingworth was considered an excellent lecturer, who could deliver three or four lectures in a day, as a broadcaster he was equally persuasive.

The Nuffield Professor of Child Health, Otto Herbert Wolff who presented the James Spence Medal to Ronald Illingworth, noted at the presentation that as a writer, the "quality of his writing is crisp, clear and simple of phrase and not a word to spare".

In 1947, Ronald Illingworth married fellow physician Cynthia Redhead and together they had two daughters and a son.

Ronald Illingworth was considered a renowned photographer and was a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and a frequent lecturer at photographic societies.

When he was a student Ronald Illingworth sold photos to the press to pay his living costs.