found: Royal College of Physicians website, viewed December 5, 2024:Henry Charlton Bastian (b. 26 April 1837 d.17 November 1915 ... Charlton Bastian was born at Truro and educated at Falmouth and University College, London, where he took the degrees of M.A. in 1861 and of M.B. in 1863. His first appointments were as assistant physician and lecturer on pathology to St. Mary's Hospital. These he resigned in 1867 to become professor of pathology at University College and assistant physician at University College Hospital; he later became full physician and in 1887 succeeded to the chair of medicine. In 1868 he was elected assistant physician, and in 1887 physician to the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic. For early work on parasitology he was made an F.R.S. at the age of thirty-one ... For the greater part of his life, Bastian devoted himself to the study of the nervous system and became ... a recognised pioneer in the modern science of neurology. For many years he made a particular study of aphasia ... The other great problem which Bastian explored, particularly in his younger and in his later years, was that of the origin of life ... He married Julia, daughter of Charles Orme, and had three sons and a daughter. He died at Chesham Bois)
