Bertram Windle

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He was born at Mayfield Vicarage, in Staffordshire, where his father, the Reverend Samuel Allen Windle, a Church of England clergyman, was vicar.{{cite journal | last1 = Horgan | first1 = John J | year = 1960 | title = Sir Bertram Windle (1858–1929) | url = http://www.tcd.ie/Secretary/FellowsScholars/discourses/discourses/1959_%20J.J.%20Horgan%20on%20B.%20Windle.pdf | journal = Hermathena | volume = 94 | page = 3 }} He attended Trinity College, where he graduated B.A. in 1879. He also served as Librarian of the University Philosophical Society in the 1877–78 session.

In 1891 he was appointed dean of the medical faculty of Queen's College, Birmingham. Queen's College's medical faculty became the medical faculty of Mason Science College in the early 1890s, and then became the medical faculty of the University of Birmingham in 1900. Windle was professor of anatomy and anthropology and first Dean of the Medical Faculty at Birmingham University. He was a member of the Teachers′ Registration Council until he resigned in late 1902.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Notice |date=12 November 1902 |page=10 |issue=36923}} In 1904 he accepted the presidency of Queen's College, Cork.{{cite journal | last1 = McCorkell | first1 = E.J. | year = 1958 | title = Bertram Coghill Alan Windle | url = http://www.cchahistory.ca/journal/CCHA1958/McCorkell.pdf | journal = CCHA Report | volume = 25 | page = 55 | access-date = 1 January 2013 | archive-date = 15 October 2014 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141015043320/http://www.cchahistory.ca/journal/CCHA1958/McCorkell.pdf | url-status = dead }} He acted as president of the university (which became known as University College Cork in 1908) until 1918, when he moved to Canada.{{cite web|url = https://www.ucc.ie/en/anatomy/about/ahistoryofthedepartment/professorsofanatomyadditionalinformation/professorwindleadditionalinformation/ | publisher = University College Cork | website = ucc.ie | title = Professor Windle – Additional Information | access-date = 2 September 2019 }}

During Windle’s time as president of University College Cork, he worked with John Robert O’Connell on the Honan Bequest which resulted in the building of the Honan Chapel with the inclusion of stained glass windows by An Túr Gloine and by Harry Clarke.

During his medical training days, Windle was an atheist. He later converted to Catholicism.Bowler, Peter J. (2001). Reconciling Science and Religion: The Debate in Early-Twentieth-Century Britain. University of Chicago Press. p. 41. {{ISBN|0-226-06858-7}} He was a critic of Darwinism and took influence from St. George Jackson Mivart.Engels, Eve-Marie. (2008). The Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe: Volume 1. Continuum. pp. 74-75. {{ISBN|978-0-8264-5833-9}} Historian David N. Livingstone has noted that Windle favoured a Catholic version of neo-Lamarckism.Livingstone, David N. (2009). Evolution and Religion. In Michael Ruse; Joseph Travis. Evolution: The First Four Billion Years. Harvard University Press. p. 355. {{ISBN|978-0-674-03175-3}}

Windle was a vitalist.Allitt, Patrick. (1997). Catholic Converts: British and American Intellectuals Turn to Rome. Cornell University Press. p. 171. {{ISBN|0-8014-8663-7}} Historian Peter J. Bowler has written that Windle was "one of the few biologists to defend an outright vitalism."Bowler, Peter J. (2001). Reconciling Science and Religion: The Debate in Early-Twentieth-Century Britain. University of Chicago Press. p. 167. {{ISBN|0-226-06858-7}}

Windle married twice, first in 1886 to Madoline Hudson, and in 1901 to Edith Mary Nazer. He died in 1929 aged 71.[https://web.archive.org/web/20140811003221/http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v123/n3097/abs/123354a0.html "Sir Bertram Windle, F.R.S,"] Nature, Vol. 123, March 1929, p. 354."The Late Sir Bertram Windle," The British Medical Journal, Vol. 1, No. 3564, 1929, p. 792.

Windle was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1899.{{cite web|url=http://royalsociety.org/uploadedFiles/Royal_Society_Content/about-us/fellowship/Fellows1660-2007.pdf|title=Complete List of Royal Society Fellows 1660-2007|access-date=29 October 2015|publisher=Royal Society}} In 1909, he was made a knight of St. Gregory the Great by Pius X. In 1912, he was made a Knight Bachelor and therefore granted the title sir.'WINDLE, Sir Bertram Coghill Alan', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U219343 accessed 28 Oct 2017] He was knighted by King George V during a ceremony at Buckingham Palace on 6 March 1912.{{London Gazette |issue= 28588 |date= 8 March 1912 |pages= 1745–1746}}

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• [https://archive.org/details/acollectionarch00windgoog/page/n2 ''A Collection of Archaeological Pamphlets on Roman Remains"] (1878).
• Congenital Malformations and Heredity (1888).
• The Birmingham School of Medicine (1890).
• [https://archive.org/stream/proportionsofhum00windrich#page/n5/mode/2up The Proportions of the Human Body] (1892).
• The Modern University (1892).
• A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients (1894)
• [https://archive.org/stream/ahandbooksurfac00windgoog#page/n14/mode/2up A Handbook of Surface Anatomy and Landmarks] (1896).
• [https://archive.org/stream/lifeearlybritain00wind#page/n7/mode/2up Life in Early Britain] (1897).
• [https://archive.org/stream/shakespearescou00windgoog#page/n5/mode/2up Shakespeare's Country] (1899).
• [https://archive.org/stream/vitalismscholast00winduoft#page/n5/mode/2up Vitalism and Scholasticism] (1900).
• The Malvern Country (1901).
• [https://archive.org/stream/cu31924028032427#page/n9/mode/2up The Wessex of Thomas Hardy] (1902).
• [https://archive.org/stream/chesterahistori00windgoog#page/n8/mode/2up Chester] (1904).
• [https://archive.org/stream/remainsprehistor00wind#page/n5/mode/2up Remains of the Prehistoric Age in England] (1904).
• [https://archive.org/stream/whatislifestudyo00winduoft#page/n9/mode/2up What is Life? A Study of Vitalism and Neo-Vitalism] (1908).
• [https://archive.org/stream/factstheoriesbei00windrich#page/n5/mode/2up Facts and Theories] (1912).
• [https://archive.org/stream/centuryofscienti00windrich#page/n5/mode/2up A Century of Scientific Thought and Other Essays] (1915).
• [https://archive.org/stream/churchscience00windiala#page/n5/mode/2up The Church and Science] (1917).[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=22&dat=19200316&id=BncDAAAAIBAJ&sjid=tSkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6605,4760150 "Is Not Foe to Cause of Science,"] The Toronto World, 16 March 1920, p. 4.
• [https://archive.org/stream/sciencemorals00winduoft#page/n5/mode/2up Science and Morals and other Essays] (1919).
• The Romans in Britain (1923).
• [https://archive.org/stream/MN5186ucmf_1#page/n5/mode/2up On Miracles and Some Other Matters] (1924).
• [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015011502146 Who's Who of the Oxford Movement] (1926).
• Evolution and Catholicity (1926).
• The Catholic Church and its Reactions with Science (1927).
• The Evolutionary Problem as it is Today (1927).
• [https://archive.org/stream/MN40250ucmf_2#page/n5/mode/2up Religions Past and Present] (1928; 1st Pub. 1927).
• History as it is Taught (1928).{{div col end}}

Selected articles

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• [https://archive.org/stream/dublinreview149londuoft#page/92/mode/2up "Totemism and Exogamy,"] The Dublin Review (1911).
• "The National University and Development of the Intellectuality of the Nation," Journal of the Ivernian Society (1911).
• [https://archive.org/stream/twelvecatholicme00windrich#page/n61/mode/2up "Nicolaus Stensen."] In: Twelve Catholic Men of Science (1912).
• [https://archive.org/stream/twelvecatholicme00windrich#page/n259/mode/2up "Thomas Dwight."] In: Twelve Catholic Men of Science (1912).
• [https://archive.org/stream/dublinreview150londuoft#page/306/mode/2up "Darwin and the Theory of Natural Selection,"] The Dublin Review (1912).
• "The National University and the People", Journal of the Ivernian Society (1912).
• [https://archive.org/stream/catholicworld96pauluoft#page/626/mode/2up "A Great Catholic Scientist: Joseph Van Beneden (1809–1894),"] The Catholic World (1912–1913).
• [https://archive.org/stream/dublinreview152londuoft#page/310/mode/2up "Early Man,"] The Dublin Review (1913).
• "Some Recent Works on the Antiquity of Man," Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review (1914).
• "The Latest Gospel of Science," Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review (1915).
• [https://archive.org/stream/catholicworld101pauluoft#page/n49/mode/2up "Miracles—Fifty Years Ago and Now"], The Catholic World (1915).
• [https://archive.org/stream/dublinreview160onduoft#page/96/mode/2up "Prehistoric Art in Europe,"] The Dublin Review (1917).
• [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015028067026;view=1up;seq=599 "Science in 'Bondage',"] The Catholic World (1917).
• [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015033150973;view=1up;seq=761 "The Irish Convention: A Member's Afterthoughts,"] The Living Age (1918).
• [https://archive.org/stream/catholicworld00projgoog#page/n231/mode/2up "A Medical View of Miracles,"] The Catholic World (1919–1920).
• [https://archive.org/stream/catholicworld113pauluoft#page/72/mode/2up "From the Dark Ages,"] The Catholic World (1921).
• [https://archive.org/stream/catholicworldvo02fathgoog#page/n90/mode/2up "Astrology,"] The Catholic World (1922).
• "Science Sees the Light," Commonweal (1924).
• "Scott and the Oxford Movement," Commonweal (1924).
• "Huxley and the Catholic Church," Commonweal (1925).
• [https://archive.org/stream/universal01hamm#page/n301/mode/2up "Europe in the Age of Stone and Bronze."] In: Universal World History (1937).

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Miscellany

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• [https://archive.org/stream/empireclubspeec02canagoog#page/n76/mode/2up "Recent Developments in University Education in Great Britain,"] (1921).
• [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31175007430492;view=1up;seq=7 Introduction] to the 1906 edition of The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, by Gilbert White (1720–93).

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• Darwinism
• Fellows of the Royal Society
• Oxford Movement

{{Reflist}}

• {{cite journal | last1 = Gwynn | first1 = Denis | year = 1960 | title = Sir Bertram Windle, 1858–1929: A Centenary Tribute | journal = University Review | volume = 2 | issue = 3/4| pages = 48–58 }}
• {{cite journal | last1 = Horgan | first1 = John J | year = 1932 | title = Sir Bertram Windle | journal = Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review | volume = 21 | issue = 84| pages = 611–626 }}
• Keogh, Ann (2004). A Study in Philanthropy: Sir Bertram Windle, Sir John O'Connell, Isabella Honan and the Building of the Honal Chapel, University College Cork. Thesis (M.A.) – Department of History, UCC.
• Keogh, Ann & Keogh, Dermot (2010). Bertram Windle: The Honan Bequest and The Modernisation of University College Cork 1904–1919. Cork: Cork University Press.
• {{cite journal | last1 = McCormick | first1 = John F | year = 1933 | title = Sir Bertram Windle | journal = Thought | volume = 8 | issue = 1| pages = 143–145 | doi=10.5840/thought19338180}}
• McGuire, Constantine E. (1935). Catholic Builders of the Nation. New York: Catholic Book Company.
• Neeson, Hugh (1962). The Educational Work of Sir Bertram Windle, F.R.S., (1858–1929) with Particular Reference to his Contributions to Higher Education in Ireland. Thesis (M.A.) – The Queen's University of Belfast.
• Taylor, Monica (1932). Sir Bertram Windle, a Memoir. London: Longmans, Green and Co.

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• {{cite journal | pmc = 2450008 | pmid=20774499 | volume=1 | year=1929 | journal=Br Med J | pages=375–6|doi=10.1136/bmj.1.3555.375-b| title=Sir Bertram Windle, M.d., Ll.d., F.r.s | issue=3555 }}
• {{Gutenberg author | id=26671| name=Bertram Coghill Alan Windle}}
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• [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Search/Home?lookfor=%22Windle,%20Bertram%20Coghill%20Alan,%20Sir,%201858-1929.%22&type=author&inst= Works by Bertram Windle], at Hathi Trust

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