Arthur Shadwell Explained

Birth Date:21 September 1854
Death Place:Richmond, London

Arthur Shadwell (September 1854 – 21 March 1936) was a British physician and author, specialising in public health, temperance, and wider problems of economics and politics.[1]

Career

Arthur Shadwell was an alumnus of Uppingham School and Keble College, Oxford where he matriculated in 1874. He graduated B.A. in 1882, and B.Med.and M.A. in 1883. He completed his clinical training at Saint Bartholomew's Hospital, and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.

Shadwell was appointed as a medical advisor to the Metropolitan Asylums Board in 1900.[2] In September 1908 he was appointed a trustee for the Queen Victoria Jubilee Institute of Nurses.[3] Shadwell had worked as an assistant physician in Brighton at the Sussex County Hospital, before he decided to pursue his dream of writing on public health, temperance, and wider problems of economics and politics,[4] [5] He wrote numerous books and articles for publications like Maclean's,[6] and in 1892 he was selected to be a special correspondent for The Times.[7] After finishing his role as a specialist correspondent for The Times, he continued to work for them as a contributor to The Times Literary Supplement.[8] During 1925-26 Shadwell gave the Fitzpatrick Lecture at the Royal College of Physicians and regularly gave talks to other institutions.[9]

Shadwell's work is still quoted by fellow writers and scholars.[10] [11]

Personal life

Shadwell was born in Langton, Yorkshire on the 21 September 1854 to The Reverend Arthur Shadwell.[12]

Shadwell was married twice with his first wife being Bertha James and his second wife being Alice Louise Theobald.[13] Shadwell lived at Pond Cottage[14] and Old Yard House, Ham Common, London[12] where he was buried at St Andrews Church.[15]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: DR. ARTHUR SHADWELL; British Author and Lecturer, 81, 'Student of Social Problems. The New York Times. 23 March 1936. 28 January 2021.
  2. Web site: The Nursing Record & Hospital World. 13 October 1900. 29 January 2021.
  3. Web site: Queen Victoria's Jubilee Institute for Nurses. The Times. 5 September 1908. 28 January 2021.
  4. Web site: Dr Arthur Shadwell has reprinted from The Times his letters on The Revolutionary Movement of Great Britain. The Spectator. 30 April 1921. 28 January 2021.
  5. Web site: The Coal-mining Industry. Nature. H. Louis. 11 August 1921. 28 January 2021.
  6. Web site: Optimism a Boomerang Does Failure of Post-War World to Readjust Itself Depress Britons to This Extent?. Maclean's Magazine. 1 September 1925. 28 January 2021.
  7. Web site: Munks Roll Details for Arthur Shadwell. munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk. 2018-04-20.
  8. Web site: Trent's Last Case (E.C. Bentley). 29 January 2021.
  9. Web site: Forthcoming Meetings Journal of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Volume 5, Issue 3, May 1926, Page 176, doi.org/10.2307/3015409, Published: 01 May 1926. Oxford Academic. 29 January 2021.
  10. Book: Dope Girls: The Birth Of The British Drug Underground. Marek Kohn. 7 March 2013. 978-1862076181. 29 January 2021.
  11. Book: Lauds and Libels. C.L. Graves. 4 August 2020. 978-5519346689. 29 January 2021.
  12. Web site: Dr. Arthur Shadwell. Social Investigation for The Times. The Times. 23 March 1936. 28 January 2021.
  13. Web site: Arthur Shadwell, and Alice Louise Shadwell, his widow. Royal Litery Fund. 28 January 2021.
  14. Web site: Frood . Margaret . 25 October 2015 . Decision as to tribute to the gallant dead . Ham Remembers.
  15. News: 23 March 1936 . Dr. Arthur Shadwell . 21 January 2024 . The Times . The Times Digital Archive.
  16. Web site: The Architectural History of the City of Rome, Based on J.H. Parker's "Archaeology of Rome" For the Use of Students. The J.P. Getty Museum. 28 January 2021.
  17. Web site: Arthur Shadwell. Industrial Efficiency: A Comparative Study of Industrial Life in England, Germany, and America - The Economic Journal, Volume 16, Issue 62, 1 June 1906, Pages 235–240. Oxford Academic. 28 January 2021.
  18. Web site: The Socialist Movement. By Arthur Shadwell. (London: Philip Allan and Co.1925. Two volumes. Pp. 212; 217.) - State Experiments in Australia and New Zealand. By W. Pember Reeves. (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co.1925. Two volumes. Pp. 391; 367.). Paul H. Douglas. Cambridge University Press. 28 January 2021.
  19. Web site: Dr. Arthur Shadwell in The Breakdown of Socialism. The Spectator. 13 November 1926. 29 January 2021.

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