About: Peter Williams (physician)

Facets (new session)
Description
Metadata
Settings
- Rule:
- Inverse Functional Properties:
- "Same As":

About: Peter Williams (physician) Goto Sponge NotDistinct Permalink

An Entity of Type : schema:Person, within Data Space : dbpedia.org associated with source document(s)
QRcode icon

http://dbpedia.org/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2FPeter_Williams_%28physician%29

Peter Orchard Williams CBE FRCP (23 September 1925 − 25 July 2014) was a British physician, who served as Director of the Wellcome Trust, and of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. The son of Agnes (née Birkinshaw) and Robert Williams, he was born on 23 September 1925 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, where his father, a botanist, was curator of the Royal Botanic Gardens. Williams joined the Wellcome Trust in 1960, becoming director in 1965, and retiring from there in 1991. During that time, he managed a hundred-fold increase in the Trust's budget.

Attributes	Values
rdf:type	Thing foaf:Person person dul:NaturalPerson Eukaryote Homo sapiens Human Animal animal eukaryote species schema:Person
rdfs:label	Peter Williams (physician) (en)
rdfs:comment	Peter Orchard Williams CBE FRCP (23 September 1925 − 25 July 2014) was a British physician, who served as Director of the Wellcome Trust, and of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. The son of Agnes (née Birkinshaw) and Robert Williams, he was born on 23 September 1925 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, where his father, a botanist, was curator of the Royal Botanic Gardens. Williams joined the Wellcome Trust in 1960, becoming director in 1965, and retiring from there in 1991. During that time, he managed a hundred-fold increase in the Trust's budget. (en)
birth place	Demographics of Trinidad and Tobago Port of Spain
death place	England (band) Oxfordshire Woodstock, Oxfordshire
death place	England (band) Oxfordshire Woodstock, Oxfordshire
death date	2014-07-25 (xsd:date)
birth place	Demographics of Trinidad and Tobago Port of Spain
birth date	1925-09-23 (xsd:date)
dcterms:subject	1925 births Place of birth missing Place of death missing 2014 deaths 20th-century British medical doctors Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians Royal Army Medical Corps officers People from Port of Spain 20th-century British Army personnel Presidents of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Wikipage page ID	54284332 (xsd:integer)
Wikipage revision ID	1112382319 (xsd:integer)
Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage	Royal Army Medical Corps Royal Botanic Gardens, Trinidad University of Birmingham University of Cambridge University of Glasgow University of Nottingham University of Oxford University of the West Indies 1925 births Place of birth missing Place of death missing Commander of the Order of the British Empire Medical Research Council (United Kingdom) 1991 Birthday Honours England (band) 2014 deaths 20th-century British medical doctors Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians Royal Army Medical Corps officers Demographics of Trinidad and Tobago Wellcome Trust People from Port of Spain Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians Oxfordshire The Hague Club 20th-century British Army personnel Presidents of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Honorary degree Port of Spain Woodstock, Oxfordshire St Mary's Hospital Medical School Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine National Service in the United Kingdom dbr:Association_of_Medical_Research_Charities
sameAs	Peter Williams (physician) Peter Williams (physician) Peter Williams (physician) Peter Williams (physician) Peter Williams (physician) Peter Williams (physician)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate	dbt:Authority_control dbt:Birth_date dbt:Infobox_person dbt:Post-nominals dbt:Reflist dbt:Use_British_English dbt:Use_dmy_dates dbt:Death_date_and_age dbt:UK-med-bio-stub dbt:History_of_Modern_Biomedicine_Research_Group_ID
birth date	1925-09-23 (xsd:date)
birth name	Peter Orchard Williams (en)
death date	2014-07-25 (xsd:date)
honorific suffix	Commander of the Order of the British Empire Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians
nationality	British (en)
has abstract	Peter Orchard Williams CBE FRCP (23 September 1925 − 25 July 2014) was a British physician, who served as Director of the Wellcome Trust, and of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. The son of Agnes (née Birkinshaw) and Robert Williams, he was born on 23 September 1925 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, where his father, a botanist, was curator of the Royal Botanic Gardens. He read medicine at the University of Cambridge for two years, then spent four years at St Mary's Hospital Medical School. He undertook National Service with the Royal Army Medical Corps for three years, spending some time in Germany. on his return, he was employed from 1955 to 1960 by the Medical Research Council as a medical officer. Williams joined the Wellcome Trust in 1960, becoming director in 1965, and retiring from there in 1991. During that time, he managed a hundred-fold increase in the Trust's budget. Williams was awarded honorary degrees by the University of Birmingham (1989), University of Nottingham (1990). University of the West Indies (1991). University of Glasgow (1992), and University of Oxford (1993). He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1991 Birthday Honours. He was a founder member of The Hague Club, and of the . He was president of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from 1991 to 1993. Williams died on 25 July 2014, aged 89, in Woodstock, Oxfordshire. (en)
employer	Medical Research Council (United Kingdom)
schema:sameAs	Peter Williams (physician)

Faceted Search & Find service v1.17_git139 as of Feb 29 2024

Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE Content Formats:

RDF

ODATA

Microdata

About

OpenLink Virtuoso version 08.03.3331 as of Sep 2 2024, on Linux (x86_64-generic-linux-glibc212), Single-Server Edition (61 GB total memory, 53 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2024 OpenLink Software