Hamilton Hartridge was a British eye physiologist and medical writer.

Hamilton Hartridge was educated at Harrow

Harrow School

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 and King's College, Cambridge

King's College, Cambridge

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, where he became a fellow from 1912 to 1926. He graduated in medicine from St George's Hospital

St George's Hospital

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 in 1914, serving during the war as an experimental officer at RNAS Kingsnorth

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. In 1916 he married Kathleen Wilson. After the war he stayed in Cambridge University as lecturer in special senses and senior demonstrator in physiology

Physiology

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. He gained a reputation as an ingenious experimenter, as well as working to revise established medical textbooks. From 1927 to 1947 he was professor of physiology at St Bartholomew's Hospital

St Bartholomew's Hospital

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, and from 1947 to 1951 director of the vision research unit of the Medical Research Council

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Works

• Chapter on the sense organs, in Ernest Henry Starling, Principles of human physiology, 3rd ed, London: J. & A. Churchill, 1920.
• Supplementary essay in William Pole
  William Pole
  William Pole was an English engineer.He was a man of many accomplishments. Having spent his earlier years in various engineering occupations in England, he went out to India in 1844 as professor of engineering at Elphinstone College, Bombay, where he had to first organize the course of instruction...
  
  , The philosophy of music, 6th ed., London, K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co.; New York, Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1924. The International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method
  The International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method
  The International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method was an influential series of monographs published published 1910–1965 under the general editorship of Charles Kay Ogden. This series published some of the landmark works on psychology and philosophy, particularly the thought...
  
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• Bainbridge & Menzies' Essentials of physiology, 7th ed., 1929.
• Colours and how we see them, 1949.
• Recent advances in the physiology of vision, 1950.

Further reading

• Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, vol 23, 1977, pp 193–211.