Swale Vincent
{{Short description|British physiologist}}
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1868|5|24|df=y}}
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| nationality = British
| death_date = {{death date and age|1933|12|31|1868|5|24|df=y}}
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| field = Physiologist; endocrinologist
| work_institution = Mason Science College later the University of Birmingham)
University of Manitoba
University of London
| alma_mater = Mason Science College (later the University of Birmingham)
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| known_for = Early research on ductless glands
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Prof Thomas Swale Vincent MD FRSE LLD (24 May 1868 – 31 December 1933) was a British physiologist who spent most of his working life in Canada.
Early years
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Thomas Swale Vincent was born in Birmingham on 24 May 1868, the son of Joseph Vincent and his wife, Margaret Swale.C. Lovatt Evans (1934) "T. Swale Vincent, M.D., D.Sc., Ll.D. Formerly Professor Of Physiology, University Of London," The British Medical Journal, Vol. 1, No. 3810 (Jan. 13, 1934), pp. 83-84British physiologists 1885-1914: a biographical dictionary, Manchester University Press ND, 1991, p513-5
He was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School in Birmingham, and subsequently studied Medicine at Mason Science College (which later became the University of Birmingham), graduating MB in 1894.{{Cite web |url=http://www.ulrls.lon.ac.uk/resources/general_register_part_3.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2014-07-20 |archive-date=2016-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304023058/http://www.ulrls.lon.ac.uk/resources/general_register_part_3.pdf |url-status=dead }} At age 24, Swale qualified in medicine, and travelled to the University of Heidelberg to study under Albrecht Kossel. He then returned to Mason Science College as a demonstrator of physiology.
Career
In 1896, Vincent's first paper, entitled "The Suprarenal Capsules in the Lower Vertebrates," was published in The Proceedings of the Birmingham Natural History and Philosophical Society. This research earned him a BMA Research Scholarship, presenting the opportunity to work with E.A. Schäfer, the original discoverer of the suprarenal capsules, at University College in London. In 1897, Vincent succeeded Benjamin Moore as Sharpey Scholar, becoming assistant professor to Schäfer, and, in 1899, to Ernest Starling.
In 1900, Vincent was appointed a lecturer at Cardiff, where his students included future cardiologist Thomas Lewis, with whom he published two papers on the biochemistry of muscle. Lewis later wrote, "I have always been grateful to Vincent for giving me my first introduction to scientific work." Two years later, he was awarded the Francis Mason Research Scholarship, and rejoined Schäfer, now at the University of Edinburgh, to study the physiology of the thymus and other ductless glands. In 1904 he was awarded a Doctor of Science from the University of Edinburgh for his thesis on Addison's disease and the functions of the suprarenal capsules.{{Cite journal|last=Vincent|first=Swale|date=1904|title=Addison's disease and the functions of the suprarenal capsules|url=https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/20816|language=en}}
In 1904, Vincent was appointed the first Professor of Physiology at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.Ian Carr & Robert E. Beamish (1999) Manitoba medicine: a brief history, Univ. of Manitoba Press, p55 Here, he oversaw the research of biochemist Alexander Thomas Cameron, and was influential in fostering Cameron's interest in endocrinology.White, F.D. & Collip J.B. (1948) "Obituary Notice: Alexander Thomas Cameron, 1882-1947," Biochemical Journal, 43(1): 1–2 In 1910, Vincent was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, William Cramer, James Cossar Ewart and Orlando Charnock Bradley.{{cite book|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|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|access-date=2019-02-17|archive-date=2016-03-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|url-status=dead}} Vincent remained at Manitoba until 1920, when he returned to London to become Professor of Physiology at Middlesex Hospital. He retired from this post in 1930.
Personal life
In 1914, he married Beatrice Overton, daughter of Mr. W. Overton, and had two daughters; all three survived him. Vincent's shyness sometimes gave an impression of brusqueness, but friends knew him as a "staunch friend and a charming companion." Vincent, who practised as a pianist, also had a deep love of music.
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Category:20th-century British biologists
Category:British endocrinologists
Category:British physiologists
Category:Alumni of the University of Birmingham