Roy Porter "History of Science" for many years. In 2007 Roberta Bivins and John V. Pickstone edited "Medicine, Madness and Social History: Essays in Honour of Roy Porter" (Palgrave Macmillan). Several of the essays address Porter's work directly, and William F. Bynum appends a biographical sketch. Roy Porter Roy Sydney Porter, FBA (31 December 1946 – 3 March 2002) was a British historian known for his important work on the history of medicine. He retired in 2001 from the director of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine at University College, London (UCL). Porter grew up in South London and attended
William Cowper (Dean of Sydney) William Cowper (Dean of Sydney) William Macquarie Cowper (known in his youth as Macquarie; 3 July 1810 – 14 June 1902) was an Australian Anglican archdeacon and Dean of Sydney. Cowper was born in Sydney, the son of the Revd William Cowper, assistant colonial chaplain, and his second wife, Ann (née Barrell) . Educated by his father and at the University of Oxford, he graduated BA from Magdalen Hall in 1833 and MA in 1835. Following admission to deacon´s order, he was appointed curate of St Petrox, Dartmouth, and ordained priest at Exeter in 1834. He returned to Australia in