George Pickering (physician)
British physician and academic
Sir George White Pickering, FRS (26 June 1904 – 3 September 1980) was an English medical doctor and academic.
Biography
Pickering was Regius Professor of Medicine at the University of Oxford from 1956 to 1968, and Master of Pembroke College, Oxford, from 1968 to 1975.
He was a Governor of Abingdon School from 1969 until 1974. Pickering was the author of the book Creative Malady (1974). The book explores creativity and mental illness in the lives of Charles Darwin, Mary Baker Eddy, Sigmund Freud, Florence Nightingale, Marcel Proust and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Honours
In the 1957 Birthday Honours, it was announced that Pickering was to be made a Knight Bachelor in recognition of his role as Regius Professor of Medicine at the University of Oxford. On 16 July 1957, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace.
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