Bertram Windle


Sir Bertram Coghill Alan Windle, M.A., M.D., Sc.D., Ph.D., LL.D., F.R.S., F.S.A., K.S.G., was a British anatomist, administrator, archaeologist, scientist, educationalist and writer.

He was born at Mayfield Vicarage, in Staffordshire, where his father, the Reverend Samuel Allen Windle, a Church of England clergyman, was vicar. He attended Trinity College, where he graduated B.A. in 1879. He also served as Librarian of the University Philosophical Society in the 187778 session. Later he became a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1891 he was appointed dean of the medical faculty of Queens College, Birmingham. Queens Colleges 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. In 1904 he accepted the presidency of Queens College, Cork. Professor Windle married twice, first to Madeleine Hudson, and in 1901 to Edith Mary Nazer.

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