Frederick William Twort, 1877-1950

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Frederick William Twort was the eldest of the eleven children of the late Dr William Henry Twort of Camberley. He was born on 22 October 1877 in his father’s house, ‘The Wilderness’, and lived there all his life. In the family tradition he was put to study medicine at St Thomas’ Hospital and obtained his qualification (M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.) in 1900. Having no private means he ‘accepted the first paid post available’ and became in 1901 assistant to Dr Louis Jenner, Superintendent of the Clinical Laboratory of St Thomas’. His salary was trifling, but he was able to learn the elements of pathological technique. In 1902 he became assistant to the Bacteriologist of the London Hospital, Dr William Bulloch, later F.R.S., and carried out single-handed the whole diagnostic routine of the Hospital. Here he was caught up in the rapidly developing ideas of the time and became intimate with a number of colleagues who later became distinguished in research.

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