| AdminHistory | Born Kettering, Northamptonshire, the fourth of the seven children of Henry John Nettleship, solicitor, and his wife, Isabella Ann, daughter of the Revd James Hogg, vicar of Geddington, Northamptonshire, 1845; educated at Kettering Grammar School, the Royal Agricultural College at Cirencester (1861-1863), the Royal Veterinary College and King's College Hospital; MRCVS and licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries, 1867; lectured at the Royal Agricultural College, 1867; Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, 1868, Fellow, 1870; assistant to Jonathan Hutchinson at the London Hospital and the Blackfriars Hospital for Skin Diseases; published the first description of the skin disorder urticaria pigmentosa, 1869; married Elizabeth Endacott Whiteway, daughter of Richard Whiteway, a farmer, 1869; no children; librarian and curator of the museum at Moorfields Eye Hospital, 1871-1873; researched on eye pathology and later on a wide range of clinical topics; medical superintendent at the Ophthalmic School at Bow, 1873-1874; commissioned by the Local Government Board to report on conditions in the metropolitan poor-law schools; held staff appointments at the South London Ophthalmic Hospital (1873-1878), St Thomas's Hospital (1878-1895), Great Ormond Street Hospital (1880-1881), and Moorfields Eye Hospital (1882-1898); began private practice, 1875; Dean of St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, 1888-1891; a founder member of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom, President, 1895-1897; retired from clinical practice, 1902, and concentrated on the application to his speciality of the developing science of genetics; in later life he actively supported the eugenics movement, while engaged on a study of albinism with Karl Pearson; Fellow of the Royal Society, 1912; died Hindhead, Surrey, 1913. Publications include 'The Student's Guide to Diseases of the Eye' (1879), and a pioneering series of papers on inherited eye disease. |