Sir Charles Symonds

A visit to Sir Charles Sherrington.

GOING through old papers recently I came upon some notes recording a visit I had paid to Sir Charles Sherrington on 7 August 1945 at the Hope Nursing Home in Cambridge where he then lived.' He was eighty-eight and already seriously crippled by arthritis but very alert in mind and ready to talk. Indeed he remained so until his death in 1952. The day before, I had been in London fox an interview ...

The poetry of Sir Charles Sherrington.

The title-poem in Sherrington’s The Assaying of Brabantius (1925) is a substantial piece taking up about three-sevenths of the volume. A third of the remaining poems ascertainably belong to the period of the First World War, but this visionary allegory with a quasi-mediaeval setting offers itself as a relatively early work. Its theme of the sinner redeemed by the innocent love for a boy (yet co...

Sir Charles Locock and potassium bromide.

On 12 May 1857, Edward Sieveking read a paper on epilepsy to the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society in London. During the discussion that followed Sir Charles Locock, obstetrician to Queen Victoria, was reported to have commented that during the past 14 months he had used potassium bromide to successfully stop epileptic seizures in all but one of 14 or 15 women with 'hysterical' or catamenia...

Peter Symonds

When a finite group G acts faithfully on a graded integral domain S which is an algebra over a field k, such as a polynomial ring, we consider S as a kG-module. We show that S is asymptotically mostly projective in each degree, and also that it is in fact mostly free in an appropriate sense. Similar results also hold for filtered algebras, such as power series rings.

Sir Charles Bell: The artist who went to the roots!