Dr. Phyllis M. Tookey Kerridge

Abstract

BY the death, after a short illness, of Dr. Phyllis Margaret Tookey Kerridge, on June 22, the subject of physiology loses one of its ablest women workers, and several circles mourn a valued friend and colleague. The only daughter of Mr. William Alfred Tookey, of Bromley, Kent, she was educated at the City of London School for Girls, and at University College, London. Most of her post-graduate years were spent at the latter institution, first in the Department of Chemistry, in which subject she had taken an honours degree in 1922, and afterwards in the Department of Physiology, in which she was a lecturer at the time of her death. She also worked for various periods of time at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the Marine Biological Association Laboratory at Plymouth, the Carlsberg Laboratories at Copenhagen, and the Medical Unit of the London Hospital. While acting as a lecturer in the Department of Physiology at University College she studied medicine at University College Hospital, qualifying in 1933, and obtained the M.R.C.P. in 1937.