William Allen Sturge

William Allen Sturge (* 1850, † 1919) was an English physician and archaeologist.

His parents - his father was a land surveyor - were Quakers, members of a Puritan religious community in England. His interest in medicine, he discovered, after he injured himself playing football at the knee and came to his uncle in treatment.

After he had studied from 1868 to two years at the University of Bristol in medicine, he fell ill with diphtheria and perpetual convalescence from rheumatic fever, which delayed the continuation of his studies. He finished his studies in 1873 with a degree at Kings College in London.

At the National Hospital for Paralysis and Epilepsy, he worked on from there. In 1876 he went to Paris and studied neurology under Jean - Martin Charcot Jean Alfred Fournier and pathology in there.

Posthumously, he was famous by the first description of Sturge- Weber syndrome in 1879 on a six and a half year old girl. The girl had a nevus flammeus on the one side of the face and focal seizures on the other side of the body. These seizures - and that was not discovered until many decades later - was probably caused by angiomas of the meninges.

From 1880 to 1907 he practiced in Nice. There he was during stays of Queen Victoria on the French Riviera personal physician to the royal family.

In 1907 he turned to archeology. He was interested in the Greek and Etruscan pottery and Neolithic and Palaeolithic finds. In his museum in Suffolk, he was 100 000 artifacts together. The Stone Age collection is housed in the British Museum; the collection of Greek amphora in Toronto Museum. He is co-founder of the Society of Prehistoric Archaeology of East Anglia.

• Physician (19th century)
• Classical archaeologist
• Prehistorians
• Briton
• English
• Born in 1850
• Died in 1919
• Man