OBITUARY 259

lbumphrep %art @[cnvc 27th November 1894-31st March 1952

(PLATE LXVIII)

HUMPHREY GLEAVE was the younger of the two sons of the Rev. Thomas Gleave, vicar of Bishop Thornton and later of Eccleshill, Yorkshire. He was educated at Bradford and Lancaster Grammar Schools before proceeding, in 1915, to the University of Leeds, where he rounded off an academic career of great brilliance by graduating in 1920 with first-class honours and the award-of which he was the first recipient-of the William Hey gold medal as the most dis- tinguished graduate in medicine of his year. He took the M.R.C.P. London five years later. Immediately after quamcation, in January 1921, he was appointed demonstrator in the department of pathology and bacteriology at Leeds, a post which he held for four years. He waa seconded for six months of this period in order to serve as house physician to Professor Wardrop Griffith.

Early in 1925 Gleave nioved to Sheffield to the joint post of demonstrator in the University under Professor Sholto Douglas and assistant pathologist to the Royal Infirmary. In the following year he was promoted to a lectureship, and in 1930 he went to Liverpool as senior lecturer in pathology with Professor Dible. In 1933 he was appointed pathologist to the Royal South Hants and Southampton Hospital, where, very soon, he was to be responsible for the planning and organisetion of the Bernhard Baron Memorial Laboratory, opened in 1937. Later, this became the chief pathological laboratory of the Southampton group of hospitals and Gleave was appointed its first director.

While still engaged in the academic field, Gleave had given promise of becoming a first-class original investigator and he made several notable contributions to pathological literature. These included his work, jointly with Professor Finch of Sheffield, on metastaaising osteoclastoma (this Journal, 1926, xxix, 399) and his study of the growth of endometrial autotransplants in the rabbit (Ibid., 1930, xxxiii, 675). In this investigation he obtained successful intrahepatic implants of endometrial tissue and was able to study the effect thereon of pregnancy, oophorectomy and the administration of oestrin. He also made a painstaking analysis and follow-up of a series of c a m of malignant melanoma (" Prognosis in malignant melanoma ", Lancet, 1929, ii, 658). Unfortunately he was dogged by ill health throughout most of his professional life and eventually had to give up all hope of academic preferment.

What was loss to our science was gain indeed to the pathological service of the Southampton area, where, for the next twenty years

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of his life, Gleave gave of his best, and where his work received well- merited recognition. He combined a wide knowledge of hie subject with sound judgment and a keen desire to help both patients and colleagues, and he soon won the respect and esteem of both. Most. evident were his sincerity and his kindliness, and his opinion as pathologist was constantly in demand and uniformly trusted. A discussion with him usually provided the key to a =cult problem. Although greatly handicapped by severe asthma he bore the full weight of the Southampton pathological services during the difficult and trying years of war. His courage, patience and good humour were never more apparent than in his latter years, when he WW.

seldom free from distressing symptoms. In his youth he had been a keen Rugby player and he maintained

his interest in sport in later life. An omnivorous reader with a wide curiosity ranging far beyond the confines of medicine and pathology. he brought a critical and well-informed mind to all subjects, and this, seasoned with an impish humour, made him a delightful companion. A keen Freemason, he was Worshipful Master of the Twelve Brothers Lodge at the time of his death.

Gleave was one of the most lovable of men and an ideal colleague. His integrity, kindliness and thoughtfulness for others were outstanding traits in his character. A good friend has gone from amongst us.

He is survived by Mrs Gleave, who had been a colleague with him in his Sheffield days (she was a member of the Department of Classics), and their son.

M. J. STEWART. E. S. DUTHIE.

Euetace Hbbott 'borne 1st December 1908-24th August 1952

EUSTACE HORNE, at the time of his death a consultant pathologist to the Nottingham General Hospital, had been a member of our Society since 1941. He wm educated at Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh, and the University of Aberdeen, where he graduated M.A. in 1929, B.Sc. in 1931 and M.B., Ch.B. in 1937. During his undergraduate career he gained many distinctions, including the Russell gold medal in pathology. In 1931-32, before embarking on his medical course, he was research assistant in physiology at the Rowett Research Institute. After qualification, he spent a year as house physician and house surgeon at the Woodend Hospital, Aberdeen, a clinical teaching school of the University.

In 1939 he was appointed demonstrator in the Department of Pathology and Bacteriology of the University of Leeds, being promoted

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