Portrait of Arthur St George Joseph McCarthy Huggett in Egypt
Date
ca. late 1940s
Sitter
Arthur St George Joseph McCarthy Huggett (1897 - 1968, British) , Physiologist
Creator - Organisation
Photonews Service Inc, Photographer
Object type
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 130mm
width (print): 182mm
width (print): 182mm
Subject
Description
Full-length portrait of Arthur St George Joseph McCarthy Huggett standing in the middle of four gentleman in front of the entrance to a stone building in Egypt. He wears light colour suit with shirt and tie, and stands facing forward with arms behind back. Gentleman to his right as viewed and gentleman on the far left wear fez/tarboosh headwear with suits.
Inscribed ‘COPYRIGHT Photonews Service Inc. 44 Sharia Kasr-al-NiI Cairo, Egypt’.
Huggett was an examiner for the University of London at Overseas Universities with the object of maintaining common standards of medical training, he visited Egypt in this way and later Nigeria and Uganda.
Arthur St George Joseph McCarthy Huggett (1897-1968) was a British physiologist and obstetrician, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1958.
Inscribed ‘COPYRIGHT Photonews Service Inc. 44 Sharia Kasr-al-NiI Cairo, Egypt’.
Huggett was an examiner for the University of London at Overseas Universities with the object of maintaining common standards of medical training, he visited Egypt in this way and later Nigeria and Uganda.
Arthur St George Joseph McCarthy Huggett (1897-1968) was a British physiologist and obstetrician, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1958.
Object history
From a collection of photographs of Arthur St George Joseph McCarthy Huggett and Helen Kemp Porter, presented to the Royal Society for duplication by Jean Adams in June 2016.
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