Gotch, Francis |
| NEUROPHYSIOLOGIST (GREAT BRITAIN) |
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BORN 13 Jul 1853, Liverpool, Merseyside - DIED 15 Jul 1913, Oxford, Oxfordshire GRAVE LOCATION Oxford, Oxfordshire: Wolvercote Cemetery, Banbury Road |
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Francis Gotch was the son of Reverend F.W. Gotch, who participated in a committee to revise the translation of the Old Testament. Francis was educated at Amersham Hall School in Buckinmghamshire and at London Universioty. In 1881 he passed the exams for the membership of the Royal College of Physicians. He married Rosamund Brunel Horsley (1864-1949) in 1887. She was the daughter of the painter John Calcott Horsley (1817-1903). In 1891 he became a professor of Physiology in Liverpool. In 1895 he succeeded Burdon Sanderson in the Waynflete Chair of Physiology in Oxford. Gotch performed pioneering research on neurophysiology. Together with his brother-in-law Victor Horsley He used electrical stimulation of the cortex to localize the brain function. In 1892 he was elected into the Royal Society. He died in 1913 in Oxford. Family • Wife: Gotch, Rosamund Brunel (1887-1913, London: St. Margaret's Church, Westminster) |
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 The grave of Francis Gotch at Wolvercote Cemetery in Oxford, Oxfordshire. Picture by Androom (09 Nov 2025) |
Sources • O'Connor, W.J., British Physiologists 1885-1914: A Biographical Dictionary, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1991 • Francis Gotch - Wikipedia (EN) |
