Edward Vaughan Berkeley Harley MRCP (28 December 1864 – 21 May 1923), was Professor of Pathological Chemistry at London University from 1896 to his retirement in 1919.[1]
He was the son of the physicianGeorge Harley (1829–1896) and Emma Jessie née Muspratt (1835–1919) and brother ofEthel Brilliana Tweedie.
Vaughan studied medicine at theUniversity of Edinburgh, graduating with an MBCM in 1887; and MD with gold medal in 1891. After travelling the world for a couple of years he studied in Paris withLouis Pasteur andPierre Paul Émile Roux, in Leipzig withCarl Ludwig, in Turin withAngelo Mosso, in Vienna, Budapest and Christiania.[1] In 1893 he was invited byVictor Horsley at University College to establish the first department of pathological chemistry in England; in 1896, on Horsley's retirement he was appointed to the professorship.
In 1905 he married a renowned beauty,[2] Mary 'Ming' née Blagden (1869–1936), daughter of the Rev Henry Blagden (1832–1922), Hon. Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, and Isabella Catherine née Searight (1845–1923). They had two daughters: Diana Mary 'Dido' Harley (1906–1964) who was the second wife of Brigadier Eric Greville Earle DSO (1893–1965); andPrimrose Harley (1908–1978) who married first in 1936 Lt-ColJohn Alfred Codrington (1898–1991), they divorced in 1942, and in 1952 she married secondly the American landscape architectLanning Roper (1912–1983).
His London practice was at 25 Harley Street. In 1907 he purchasedWalton Hall, Milton Keynes as a country house;[3] he established a farm there where he explored his deep interest in scientific farming and bred prize-winning shorthorn cattle, Oxford Downs sheep, shire horses and Large Black pigs.
He died at Walton Hall in 1923.
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