![]() Funds were always short, after World War I there was great pressure of student numbers, perhaps he spread his interests too widely, and his versatility was used against him by critics. Nor did his department develop far as a research centre. His further research, especially until 1914, was of a high order but did not fulfil his early promise. Osborne was dean of the faculty of medicine from 1929, president of the professorial board (1919-21) and council-member (1919-22, 1924, 1928). Mathison (killed at Gallipoli) and (Sir) Douglas Wright. They included (Sir) Macfarlane Burnet, (Dame) Kate Campbell, (Sir) John Eccles, Charles Kellaway, G. The range of 'Ossie's' lectures, his wit and anecdotes, opened up new worlds to his students he was especially generous of time to his 'apostles', the best dozen students each year. In the absence of a professor, he acted as dean of agriculture in 1906-11 and later he taught pharmacology himself for many years, and in 1906 established a lectureship in biochemistry to which he eventually recruited William Young. He was quickly disillusioned by conditions at the university which provided no funds for research equipment or assistant staff in his discipline and he deplored the backwardness in organic chemistry. He called this division between the two cultures 'the great frustration of my life'. ![]() His wide range of interests was often held against him as evidence of dilettantism, although his knowledge of many subjects was profound. The legend that he simultaneously applied for the Melbourne chair in English literature has no basis, although he often said he would have preferred English or history to physiology. Osborne had the backing of Starling and Professor Sir William Ramsay when on 30 December 1903 he was appointed professor of physiology and histology at the University of Melbourne, taking over from (Sir) Charles Martin. In 1906 they wrote together a German grammar for students of science. On 10 December 1903 at Armley Anglican Church, Leeds, he married Ethel Elizabeth Goodson. 'Tall, athletic, strikingly handsome, blue-eyed and blonde', he was an accomplished boxer and shot. ![]() With command of German, French, Italian, Spanish and Norwegian, as well as Latin and a little Greek, Osborne had phenomenal literary knowledge. In 1899 he was appointed lecturer at University College, London, and assistant professor in 1902 under Professor E. After demonstrating at Queen's, he took up an 1851 Exhibition scholarship at the University of Tübingen, Germany (D.Sc., 1899), studying biochemistry and physics. His father had pushed him into medicine, despite his 'vehement protests' he said late in life, but he 'escaped into science'. ![]() Osborne was educated at the Upper Sullivan School, Holywood, and Queen's College, Belfast (M.B., Ch.B., 1895), topping his final year. His parents were acquainted with the physicist Lord Kelvin and the historian Lord Bryce. Henry Osborne, Presbyterian clergyman, and his wife Martha Jane, née Alexander. William Alexander Osborne (1873-1967), professor of physiology, man of letters and broadcaster, was born on 26 August 1873 at Holywood, Down, Ireland, son of Rev. ![]()
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