Robert Havard

Robert Emlyn Havard ( born March 15, 1901 East of England, † 1985) was a British physician and medical scientist. He was the family doctor of the writer JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis, as well as his wife, Joy Gresham.

Life

Havard studied at Keble College, Oxford chemistry, then he took a degree in medicine at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. There he participated in a study in 1926 under the title The influence of exercise on the inorganic phosphates in the blood and urine ( " The influence of exercise on the inorganic phosphates in the blood and urine ") in the medical journal The Journal of Physiology was published. He was trained at Guy's Hospital in London in 1927 and made his medical degree as a Bachelor of Medicine (BM ) and chemistry ( BCh ). In addition, he studied and graduated in 1934 with a Doctor of Medicine ( DM) and worked in the same year in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Leeds and then went as a research assistant at Queen's College in Oxford, and worked as GP.

Havard and the Inklings

Robert Havard was the only non-literary member of the " Inklings ," a union from the 1930s to 1940s at the University of Oxford, the next to him Lewis and Tolkien other well-known writers and professors like Jack Arthur Walter Bennett, Nevill Coghill, Hugo Dyson, Charles Williams or Colin Hardie belonged. He came as the character " Dolbear " in The Notion Club papers in front of a posthumously published work and the history of Tolkien's "Prince Caspian " the Narniareihe Lewis had dedicated to the daughter of Harvard. In the literary circle he had several nicknames such as " Humphrey " or because of his beard growth in the Navy the " Red Admiral " but also UQ (Useless Quack, " Useless quack ").

Writings

• RE Havard, GA Reay: The influence of exercise on the inorganic phosphates of the blood and urine. in: . The Journal of Physiology, ISSN 0022-3751 Cambridge University Press for the Physiological Society, Cambridge 1926, PMC 1514798 (Free full text ).