Arthur Shadwell

1854-1936

Vol IV

Pg 486

b.21 September 1854 d.21 March 1936

BA Oxon(1882) BM(1883) MA DM Hon LLD Birm FRCP(1907)

This biography is part of a series of historical obituaries, originally published in print. As products of their time periods, some biographies contain language which is inappropriate and offensive and present biased accounts of physicians’ lives and work that do not disclose unethical and discriminatory behaviour. As an establishment organisation, the RCP, its members, and the way they are written about, have often reflected societal power structures that favour dominant groups. We aim to redress these biases through ongoing work.

Below is the biography as originally published in 1955.

Arthur Shadwell, second son of Rev. Arthur Shadwell of Langton, Yorkshire, was educated at Uppingham and Keble College, Oxford, and did his clinical training at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. He graduated as B.A. in 1882 and as B.M. in 1883. After a few years at Brighton, where he was assistant physician to the Sussex County Hospital, Shadwell virtually gave up the practice of medicine, although he later acted as a cholera superintendent under the Metropolitan Asylums Board for a short period. He devoted his energies to writing on public health, temperance, and wider problems of economics and politics. He acted as special correspondent of The Times, reporting on cholera epidemics in Germany and Russia, and in 1909 published a book on Industrial Efficiency, which recorded his impressions of conditions in Europe and America. He was a sympathetic but critical student of socialism and produced a work on The Socialist Movement, 1824-1924. He gave the FitzPatrick Lectures at the Royal College of Physicians in 1925-26. Shadwell’s first wife was Bertha, daughter of W. P. James of Cardiff, and his second wife Alice Louise, daughter of R. Theobald, of Almondesbury. He died at Richmond.

G H Brown

[Lancet, 1936; Al.Oxon., iv, 1278]

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