John Padel
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John Hunter Padel was a British
psychoanalyst and classicist.
He was born in Carlisle, where his father Charles Padel was headmaster of Carlisle Grammar School. His mother was Mòrag (née Hunter), 3rd daughter of William Hunter, MD. He was named after his ancestor, the surgeon John Hunter
. He gained a scholarship to Queen's College, Oxford.
He married Hilda Horatio Barlow, daughter of Sir Alan Barlow
and Nora Darwin, in 1944. She was a great-granddaughter of Charles Darwin
. They had five children:
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psychoanalyst and classicist.
He was born in Carlisle, where his father Charles Padel was headmaster of Carlisle Grammar School. His mother was Mòrag (née Hunter), 3rd daughter of William Hunter, MD. He was named after his ancestor, the surgeon John Hunter
John Hunter (surgeon)
John Hunter FRS was a Scottish surgeon regarded as one of the most distinguished scientists and surgeons of his day. He was an early advocate of careful observation and scientific method in medicine. The Hunterian Society of London was named in his honour...
. He gained a scholarship to Queen's College, Oxford.
He married Hilda Horatio Barlow, daughter of Sir Alan Barlow
Alan Barlow
Sir James Alan Noel Barlow, 2nd Baronet GCB KBE FSA was a British civil servant and collector of Islamic and Chinese art.- Biography :...
and Nora Darwin, in 1944. She was a great-granddaughter of Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin FRS was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.He published his theory...
. They had five children:
- Ruth PadelRuth PadelRuth Sophia Padel is a British poet, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Zoological Society of London. She also writes non-fiction and more recently fiction, broadcasts on wildlife, poetry and literature for BBC Radio 3 and 4, and is Writer in Residence at The Environment Institute,...
(born 1946), the poet - Oliver James PadelOliver PadelOliver James Padel is an authority on the origin and meaning of place-names, currently Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic in the University of Cambridge and Visiting Professor of Celtic at the University of the West of England.He was born in 1948...
(born 1948), mediaeval Cornish and Welsh historian - Nicola Mary Padel (born 1951), psychiatrist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist
- Felix John Padel (born 1955)
- Adam Frederick Padel (born 1958), histopathologistHistopathologyHistopathology refers to the microscopic examination of tissue in order to study the manifestations of disease...