Ernest Jackson Lawson Soulsby, Baron Soulsby of Swaffham Prior (born 23 June 1926) is a distinguished microbiologist and parasitologist.
Biography:
He was created a Life Peer in 1990 as Baron Soulsby of Swaffham Prior, of Swaffham Prior in the County of Cambridgeshire and sits as a Conservative peer in the House of Lords. Soulsby was brought up in the former county of Westmorland on the family farm at Williamsgill, Newbiggin, Temple Sowerby. He was educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Penrith, and then at the University of Edinburgh.
He served on the Government’s inquiry into fox hunting and is an expert adviser to the UK Government on animal welfare, science and technology, biotechnology and environmental issues. He is in addition the President of the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee and the President of the Royal Institute of Public Health.
Lord Soulsby was also veterinary surgeon to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
Before his retirement Soulsby was also a visiting professor at various universities in Europe and the United States. He is an honorary member of numerous international parasitology societies and has been awarded numerous honorary degrees and awards.
His granddaughters are Kananu Kirimi (actress) and Iona Soulsby (student of Environmental Science and Development Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand).
Full Title:
Ernest Jackson Lawson Baron Soulsby of Swaffham Prior, Created 1990
Education:
University of Edinburgh, MRCVS, (1948), DVSM (1949) PhD (1952), Cambridge(MA) (1954)
General practice:
Penrith, Cumbria 1948
Academic Positions:
University Lecturer University of Bristol (1952-1954); University of Cambridge (1954-1964)
Professor of Parasitology, University of Pennsylvania (1964-1978) and Chairman Dept
Pathobiology (1965-1978)
Professor of Animal Pathology, University of Cambridge and Dean School of Veterinary Medicine
(1978-1993) Professorial Fellow, Wolfson College, Cambridge (1978-1993) Emeritus Fellow
(1993-2002) Honorary Fellow (2002- )
Honorary Degrees:
Universities of Pennsylvania
Edinburgh
Leon
Peradeniya
Glasgow
Liverpool
Lincoln
St George’s in Grenada
Honorary Fellow:
Royal Society of Medicine
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons
Royal College of Pathologists
Founding Fellow, Academy of Medical Sciences
Institute of Biology
President:
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (1984-1985)
Royal Society of Medicine (1998-2000)
Royal Institute of Public Health (2003- )
Parliamentary and Scientific Committee (2004- )
World Association for the Advancement of Veterinary (1963-1967)
Helminthological Society of Washington (1970-71)
Veterinary Research Club (1986-1988)
Windward Islands Research and Education Foundation (2007- )
Awards:
Chaudhury Gold Medal Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, 1976
Behring Bilharz Prize, Cairo, 1977
Ludwig Schunk Prize, Justus Liebig University, 1979
Chiron Award BVA, 1998
Equine Veterinary Achievement Award, Animal Health Trust, 2005
Publications:
Author or co-author of 14 books and some 200 articles in scientific journals.
Selected Works:
Textbook of Veterinary Clinical Parasitology [1965]
Biology of Parasites [1966]
Epidemiology and Control of Nematodiasis in Cattle [1981]