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Darwin Correspondence Project

Hubert Airy

1838–1903

Physician. Son of George Biddell Airy. BA, Cambridge (Trinity College), 1861; MD 1870. Examiner in sanitary science. Medical inspector to the Local Government Board. Author of sanitary reports. With his father, wrote a definitive paper on migraine.

Sources

Alum. Cantab.

ODNB s.v. Airy, Sir George Biddell.

Bibliography

Alum. Cantab.: Alumni Cantabrigienses. A biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900. Compiled by John Venn and J. A. Venn. 10 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1922–54.

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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