Harley (Harley) George

(12.02.1829 - 27.10.1896)

Scottish doctor.

Born in Haddington, East Lothian. The father died early, and the boy was raised by his mother and grandmother.

Received secondary education in Haddington schools, and a university degree at Edinburgh University.

After graduating from university for 15 months, Harley worked as a surgeon and resident physician at the Royal Infantry Hospital in Edinburgh.He then spent two years in Paris, working in various physiological and chemical laboratories. In 1853 he was elected president of the Paris Medical Society.

In the next two years, Harley worked in universities in Germany and Austria, during the Crimean War, he tried to join the army of Omar Pasha as a civilian surgeon.

In 1855 Harley became a professor of practical physiology and histology at University College London and curator of his anatomical museum. In 1858, he was elected a member of the Chemical Society and the College of Physicians of Edinburgh. In subsequent years, he worked in medical jurisprudence, worked as a doctor in a hospital, but due to eye problems, he was forced to stop medical practice.

Harley was a member of the Royal Society, the Royal College of Physicians in London, and served as an examiner in anatomy and physiology at the college. He was a corresponding member of many foreign scientific societies, helped create the British Institute of Preventive Medicine.

Harley died suddenly of a heartbreak in his home. His body was cremated in Woking and the remains are buried in the Old Church in Kingsbury.

An island in the northeast of the British Channel. Opened and named by F. Jackson in 1895.