| Administrative History | Sir Bertram Coghill Alan Windle (1858-1929) was actively involved in the merger of the Medical Faculties of Queen's College, Birmingham and of Mason College (both predecessor colleges of the University of Birmingham) in 1892 and he became the first Dean of the newly created Queen's Faculty of Medicine. He was also involved in the early move towards a Midland University and served on the Proposed University of Birmingham Executive Committee which was set up in 1898. He became the first Professor of Anatomy at University of Birmingham when it received charter in 1900 and also continued to serve as Dean of the Medical Faculty. In 1905 he left Birmingham to become Principal of Cork University.
References: Eric W. Vincent and Percival Hinton, The University of Birmingham Its History and Significance (Birmingham, Cornish Brothers Ltd, 1947); Maurice Cheesewright, Mirror to a Mermaid (Birmingham: The University of Birmingham, 1975) |