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| caption = Critchley in 1969
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| birth_date = 2 February 1900
| birth_date = {{birth date|1900|2|2|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Bristol, United Kingdom]]
| birth_place = [[Bristol]], England
| death_date = 15 October 1997 (aged 97)
| death_date = {{death date and age|1997|10|15|1900|2|2|df=yes}}
| nationality = [[British people|British]]
| death_place = [[Nether Stowey]], England
| occupation = Neurologist
| alma_mater = [[University of Bristol]]
| title = President of the [[World Federation of Neurology]]
| title = President of the [[World Federation of Neurology]]
| spouse = {{ubl|{{marriage|Edna Morris|1927|1974|end = died}}|{{marriage|Eileen Hargreaves|1974}}}}
| children = 2, including [[Julian Critchley|Julian]]
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'''Macdonald Critchley''' [[CBE]] (2 February 1900 – 15 October 1997)<ref>{{cite journal | url=https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaneurology/fullarticle/773553 | doi=10.1001/archneur.55.1.122 | title=In Memoriam—Macdonald Critchley, MD | date=1998 | last1=Joynt | first1=Robert J. | journal=Archives of Neurology | volume=55 | page=122 }}</ref> was a [[Great Britain|British]] [[Neurology|neurologist]]. He 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'' (1953), ''Aphasiology'', and biographies of [[James Parkinson]] and [[William Gowers (neurologist)|Sir William Gowers]].
'''Macdonald Critchley''' [[CBE]] (2 February 1900 – 15 October 1997)<ref>{{cite journal | url=https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaneurology/fullarticle/773553 | doi=10.1001/archneur.55.1.122 | title=In Memoriam—Macdonald Critchley, MD | date=1998 | last1=Joynt | first1=Robert J. | journal=Archives of Neurology | volume=55 | page=122 }}</ref> was a British [[Neurology|neurologist]]. He 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'' (1953), ''Aphasiology'', and biographies of [[James Parkinson]] and [[William Gowers (neurologist)|Sir William Gowers]].


==Biography==
==Biography==
Macdonald Critchley was born at Bristol, son of gas collector Arthur Frank Critchley and Rosina Matilda (née White);<ref>{{Cite ODNB|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-69194|isbn = 978-0-19-861412-8|doi = 10.1093/ref:odnb/69194|title = The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|year = 2004}}</ref> he was educated in [[Bristol]] and received his medical degree there. His professional life centred on ''[[King's College Hospital]]'' and ''[[National Hospital for Paralysis and Epilepsy]]'', ''[[National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery|Queen Square]]'' "for the Paralysed and Epileptic", [[London]]. He was a [[Specialist registrar|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, London|Queen Square]]. His influence spread throughout the neurological world by teaching and writings and he later became President of the [[World Federation of Neurology]]. He studied under [[Gordon Morgan Holmes]], [[Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson]] and [[Francis Walshe]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.dictionaryofneurology.com/2009/09/featured-neurologist-macdonald.html |title=The Neuro Times: Featured Neurologist: Macdonald Critchley (1900-1997) |access-date=19 June 2012 |archive-date=4 June 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120604141539/http://www.dictionaryofneurology.com/2009/09/featured-neurologist-macdonald.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Macdonald Critchley was born at Bristol, son of gas collector Arthur Frank Critchley and Rosina Matilda (née White); he was educated in [[Bristol]] and received his medical degree from the [[University of Bristol]].<ref name = ODNB>{{Cite ODNB|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-69194|isbn = 978-0-19-861412-8|doi = 10.1093/ref:odnb/69194|title = The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|year = 2004}}</ref> He served with the [[Royal Flying Corps]].<ref name = ODNB/> His professional life centred on [[King's College Hospital]] and [[National Hospital for Paralysis and Epilepsy]], [[National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery|Queen Square]] "for the Paralysed and Epileptic", London. He was a [[Specialist registrar|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, London|Queen Square]]. His influence spread throughout the neurological world by teaching and writings and he later became President of the [[World Federation of Neurology]]. He studied under [[Gordon Morgan Holmes]], [[Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson]] and [[Francis Walshe]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.dictionaryofneurology.com/2009/09/featured-neurologist-macdonald.html |title=The Neuro Times: Featured Neurologist: Macdonald Critchley (1900-1997) |access-date=19 June 2012 |archive-date=4 June 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120604141539/http://www.dictionaryofneurology.com/2009/09/featured-neurologist-macdonald.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>


During World War II he was a Consulting Neurologist in the [[Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve]] based at [[HMNB Devonport|HMS Drake]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.unithistories.com/officers/RNVR_officersC.html|title=Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR) Officers 1939-1945 -- C}}</ref>
During World War II he was a Consulting Neurologist in the [[Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve]] based at [[HMNB Devonport|HMS Drake]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.unithistories.com/officers/RNVR_officersC.html|title=Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR) Officers 1939-1945 -- C}}</ref>


His contributions to knowledge depended not on technology, but on his power of observation and meticulous dissection of human sensibility and behaviour. The best known of his works were those on [[aphasia]] and the [[parietal lobes]]. Headache was also one of his many interests. He started a ''Headache Clinic'' at ''King's College Hospital'' and was one of the founders of the ''"British Migraine Trust"''. He 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]]. Critchley was a handsome and impressive figure, a superb speaker and a lifelong student of the human mind. His last book on the life and career of [[Hughlings Jackson]], jointly with his wife Eileen, has been published posthumously.
His contributions to knowledge depended not on technology, but on his power of observation and meticulous dissection of human sensibility and behaviour. The best known of his works were those on [[aphasia]] and the [[parietal lobes]].<ref name = ODNB/> Headache was also one of his many interests. He started a ''Headache Clinic'' at ''King's College Hospital'' and was one of the founders of the ''"British Migraine Trust"''. He 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. Critchley was a handsome and impressive figure, a superb speaker and a lifelong student of the human mind. His last book on the life and career of [[Hughlings Jackson]], jointly with his wife Eileen, has been published posthumously.


He had married twice: firstly Edna Morris, with whom he had two sons (one of whom being the politician [[Julian Critchley]])<ref>{{Cite ODNB|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-74606|isbn = 978-0-19-861412-8|doi = 10.1093/ref:odnb/74606|year = 2004|last1 = Garnett|first1 = Mark|title = Critchley, Sir Julian Michael Gordon (1930–2000), politician}}</ref> and secondly Eileen Hargreaves.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.dictionaryofneurology.com/2009/09/featured-neurologist-macdonald.html|title = Featured Neurologist: Macdonald Critchley (1900–1997) |work= The Neuro Times|accessdate= 2012-10-25}}</ref> He lived at Hughlings House (named in honour of John Hughlings Jackson), at [[Nether Stowey]] in Somerset.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaneurology/article-abstract/585296|journal=Archives of Neurology|date=May 1986|volume=43|issue=5|pages=435–437|doi=10.1001/archneur.1986.00520050015013|last1=Critchley|first1=Macdonald|title=Hughlings Jackson |pmid=3516126}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://oup.silverchair-cdn.com/oup/backfile/Content_public/Journal/brain/133/2/10.1093/brain/awp344/2/awp344.pdf?Expires=1490545847&Signature=a~lJYS-h2FXuDKvDz1c0122l9Q4NGTJvYgjSpxtHmqIy3-hyFQAPUJaoJBGUoBGdWDKgaDO~Pxz0B5a~x7G62Cf-2FcChFAJqWqvC2qpac3rNNfEvQuSI9BU~DR6t4WYCyv8g4oo4-QgMY~nO1CvBGzBiz7j2G6-VH90FXrgVBQ5Fp7CSzWE~F4MdbVxrdDEA8F4G0HUZQPfgGlNnxrxLsjEFL-LfPFu9B80N6PsmSZCuy5jRF1ypJ3P~wiQTutcirI0chCbWkF8H0HnKZpkhtvGpNMSqMFdwtRf~6qQRi2rs9o~VaJy3vglqdOVi5o0RFgEek-5Bc3q8Q7~z7ijHQ__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIUCZBIA4LVPAVW3Q|doi = 10.1093/brain/awp344|title = Editorial|year = 2010|last1 = Compston|first1 = A.|journal = Brain|volume = 133|issue = 2|pages = 311–313|pmid = 20159767|doi-access = free}}</ref>
He had married twice: firstly to Edna Morris from 1927 until her death in 1974,<ref name = ODNB/> with whom he had two sons (one of whom being the politician [[Julian Critchley]])<ref>{{Cite ODNB|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-74606|isbn = 978-0-19-861412-8|doi = 10.1093/ref:odnb/74606|year = 2004|last1 = Garnett|first1 = Mark|title = Critchley, Sir Julian Michael Gordon (1930–2000), politician}}</ref> and secondly Eileen Hargreaves, whom he married in 1974.<ref name = ODNB/><ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.dictionaryofneurology.com/2009/09/featured-neurologist-macdonald.html|title = Featured Neurologist: Macdonald Critchley (1900–1997) |work= The Neuro Times|accessdate= 2012-10-25}}</ref>
He lived at Hughlings House (named in honour of John Hughlings Jackson), at [[Nether Stowey]] in Somerset, where he died on 15 October 1997, aged 97.<ref name = ODNB/><ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaneurology/article-abstract/585296|journal=Archives of Neurology|date=May 1986|volume=43|issue=5|pages=435–437|doi=10.1001/archneur.1986.00520050015013|last1=Critchley|first1=Macdonald|title=Hughlings Jackson |pmid=3516126}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://oup.silverchair-cdn.com/oup/backfile/Content_public/Journal/brain/133/2/10.1093/brain/awp344/2/awp344.pdf?Expires=1490545847&Signature=a~lJYS-h2FXuDKvDz1c0122l9Q4NGTJvYgjSpxtHmqIy3-hyFQAPUJaoJBGUoBGdWDKgaDO~Pxz0B5a~x7G62Cf-2FcChFAJqWqvC2qpac3rNNfEvQuSI9BU~DR6t4WYCyv8g4oo4-QgMY~nO1CvBGzBiz7j2G6-VH90FXrgVBQ5Fp7CSzWE~F4MdbVxrdDEA8F4G0HUZQPfgGlNnxrxLsjEFL-LfPFu9B80N6PsmSZCuy5jRF1ypJ3P~wiQTutcirI0chCbWkF8H0HnKZpkhtvGpNMSqMFdwtRf~6qQRi2rs9o~VaJy3vglqdOVi5o0RFgEek-5Bc3q8Q7~z7ijHQ__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIUCZBIA4LVPAVW3Q|doi = 10.1093/brain/awp344|title = Editorial|year = 2010|last1 = Compston|first1 = A.|journal = Brain|volume = 133|issue = 2|pages = 311–313|pmid = 20159767|doi-access = free}}</ref>


In 2013 the weekly undergraduate teaching round at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery at Queen Square was named after him - the Critchley Round.
In 2013 the weekly undergraduate teaching round at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery at Queen Square was named after him - the Critchley Round.
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==Bibliography==
==Bibliography==
* ''The Parietal Lobes''. [[London]], Edward Arnold, 1953
* ''The Parietal Lobes''. London, Edward Arnold, 1953
* ''The Enigma of Gerstmann's Syndrome''. [[Oxford]], Brain, 1966
* ''The Enigma of Gerstmann's Syndrome''. [[Oxford]], Brain, 1966
* ''Music and the Brain: Studies in the Neurology of Music'' (with R.A.Henson). [[London]], Heinemann, 1977
* ''Music and the Brain: Studies in the Neurology of Music'' (with R.A.Henson). London, Heinemann, 1977
* ''John Hughlings Jackson, Father of English Neurology'' (with Eileen A. Critchley). [[London]], 1998
* ''John Hughlings Jackson, Father of English Neurology'' (with Eileen A. Critchley). London, 1998
* {{cite book|last=Critchley|first=Macdonald|title=The Divine Banquet of the Brain|year=1979|publisher=Raven Press Books, Ltd.|location=New York, USA|isbn=0890043485}}
* {{cite book|last=Critchley|first=Macdonald|title=The Divine Banquet of the Brain|year=1979|publisher=Raven Press Books, Ltd.|location=New York, USA|isbn=0890043485}}
* {{cite book|last=Critchley|first=Macdonald|title=The Citadel of the Senses and Other Essays|year=1986|publisher=Raven Press|location=New York, USA|isbn=0881671053}}
* {{cite book|last=Critchley|first=Macdonald|title=The Citadel of the Senses and Other Essays|year=1986|publisher=Raven Press|location=New York, USA|isbn=0881671053}}
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MacDonald Critchley
Critchley in 1969
Born(1900-02-02)2 February 1900
Bristol, England
Died15 October 1997(1997-10-15) (aged 97)
Nether Stowey, England
Alma materUniversity of Bristol
OccupationNeurologist
TitlePresident of the World Federation of Neurology
Spouses
  • Edna Morris
    (m. 1927; died 1974)
  • Eileen Hargreaves
    (m. 1974)
Children2, including Julian

Macdonald Critchley CBE (2 February 1900 – 15 October 1997)[1] was a British neurologist. He 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 (1953), Aphasiology, and biographies of James Parkinson and Sir William Gowers.

Biography

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Macdonald Critchley was born at Bristol, son of gas collector Arthur Frank Critchley and Rosina Matilda (née White); he was educated in Bristol and received his medical degree from the University of Bristol.[2] He served with the Royal Flying Corps.[2] His professional life centred on King's College Hospital and National Hospital for Paralysis and Epilepsy, Queen Square "for the Paralysed and Epileptic", London. He 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. His influence spread throughout the neurological world by teaching and writings and he later became President of the World Federation of Neurology. He studied under Gordon Morgan Holmes, Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson and Francis Walshe.[3]

During World War II he was a Consulting Neurologist in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve based at HMS Drake.[4]

His contributions to knowledge depended not on technology, but on his power of observation and meticulous dissection of human sensibility and behaviour. The best known of his works were those on aphasia and the parietal lobes.[2] Headache was also one of his many interests. He started a Headache Clinic at King's College Hospital and was one of the founders of the "British Migraine Trust". He 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. Critchley was a handsome and impressive figure, a superb speaker and a lifelong student of the human mind. His last book on the life and career of Hughlings Jackson, jointly with his wife Eileen, has been published posthumously.

He had married twice: firstly to Edna Morris from 1927 until her death in 1974,[2] with whom he had two sons (one of whom being the politician Julian Critchley)[5] and secondly Eileen Hargreaves, whom he married in 1974.[2][6]

He lived at Hughlings House (named in honour of John Hughlings Jackson), at Nether Stowey in Somerset, where he died on 15 October 1997, aged 97.[2][7][8]

In 2013 the weekly undergraduate teaching round at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery at Queen Square was named after him - the Critchley Round.

Associated eponyms

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  • Adie-Critchley syndrome: A syndrome of forced grasping and groping.
  • Klein-Levine- Critchley syndrome: A syndrome of hypersoomnia and hyperphagia.
  • Levine-Critchley syndrome: Acanthocytosis Neuroacanthocytosis with neurologic disorders detailed by Edmund Critchley not Macdonald Critchley).

Bibliography

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  • The Parietal Lobes. London, Edward Arnold, 1953
  • The Enigma of Gerstmann's Syndrome. Oxford, Brain, 1966
  • Music and the Brain: Studies in the Neurology of Music (with R.A.Henson). London, Heinemann, 1977
  • John Hughlings Jackson, Father of English Neurology (with Eileen A. Critchley). London, 1998
  • Critchley, Macdonald (1979). The Divine Banquet of the Brain. New York, USA: Raven Press Books, Ltd. ISBN 0890043485.
  • Critchley, Macdonald (1986). The Citadel of the Senses and Other Essays. New York, USA: Raven Press. ISBN 0881671053.

References

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  1. ^ Joynt, Robert J. (1998). "In Memoriam—Macdonald Critchley, MD". Archives of Neurology. 55: 122. doi:10.1001/archneur.55.1.122.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/69194. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ "The Neuro Times: Featured Neurologist: Macdonald Critchley (1900-1997)". Archived from the original on 4 June 2012. Retrieved 19 June 2012.
  4. ^ "Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR) Officers 1939-1945 -- C".
  5. ^ Garnett, Mark (2004). "Critchley, Sir Julian Michael Gordon (1930–2000), politician". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/74606. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  6. ^ "Featured Neurologist: Macdonald Critchley (1900–1997)". The Neuro Times. Retrieved 25 October 2012.
  7. ^ Critchley, Macdonald (May 1986). "Hughlings Jackson". Archives of Neurology. 43 (5): 435–437. doi:10.1001/archneur.1986.00520050015013. PMID 3516126.
  8. ^ Compston, A. (2010). "Editorial" (PDF). Brain. 133 (2): 311–313. doi:10.1093/brain/awp344. PMID 20159767.
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