Cecil Voge
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Dr Cecil Innes Bothwell Voge FRSE PhD (1898–1978) was a 20th-century Scottish physician, biochemist and geneticist. A specialist in contraception, in authorship he usually appears as C. I. B. Voge.
Life
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Voge was born in Edinburgh in 1898 the son of Johannes Anton ("John Anthony") Voge (d.1931) and his wife Elizabeth Margaret Bothwell.Voge grave, Grange Cemetery They lived at 46 Gilmore Place.Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1898 The house dates from the 18th century and is one of the largest on the street.City of Edinburgh Council, listed building records, 46 Gilmore Place
In the First World War he joined the Royal Flying Corps as a Second Lieutenant.London Gazette 12 March 1918
In 1930 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh for his contributions to chemistry. His proposers were Andrew Pritchard, William Rutherford, George James Allman and John Hutton Balfour.{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|access-date=2019-02-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|archive-date=2016-03-04|url-status=dead}}
In 1933 he undertook an important study, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and under the direction of F A E Crew at the Animal Breeding Research Department in Edinburgh. This study of the risks and benefits of contraception was called the 'Voge Study but caused a huge rift with Crew, who thereafter called him a traitor to science, for adding emotion into the study.Disciplining Reproduction, by Prof Adele E Clarke
Voge retired to Hampstead in 1963.Electoral Register: Hampstead 1963 He died on 19 June 1978. He is buried with his parents in Grange Cemetery in south Edinburgh. The grave lies in the eastmost linear section facing the main east path.
Family
He married Lily around 1930. Their children included Cecily J B Voge and Anthony W B Voge.
Publications
- The Human Blood Groups (1929)
- The Present State of the Contraceptive Trade (1933)
- The Chemistry and Physics of Contraception (1933)
- Medicinal Uses of Chlorophyll (1948)
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Category:Medical doctors from Edinburgh
Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Category:Burials at the Grange Cemetery
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Category:Scientists from Edinburgh
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