Florey, Howard Walter, Baron Florey
(1898–1968)
- R. G. Macfarlane
- , revised by E. P. Abraham
Extract
Florey, Howard Walter, Baron Florey (1898–1968), experimental pathologist and bacteriologist, was born in Adelaide, Australia, on 24 September 1898, the youngest child and only son of Joseph Florey (d. 1918), an Oxfordshire shoemaker who had emigrated in 1885, and his second wife, ...