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Henry, Michael

  • P0283
  • Person
  • 1942 -

Michael Henry was born in Liverpool in 1942, both his parents were doctors. Three years later his father got an orthopaedic consultant’s post and the family moved to Cheltenham. Michael Henry was educated at Dean Close Junior School and at Cheltenham College, from where he went on to read Modern Languages (German and French) at The Queen’s College, Oxford. Here, he met and married a fellow modern linguist, June Parrott. After a brief stint in Personnel Management in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Michael Henry got a teaching job in Saskatchewan and he and his wife and small daughter moved to Canada.

Two more daughters were born in Canada, the younger one in Edmonton, Alberta where the family lived for eleven years. Michael Henry’s first literary success was an honourable mention for a poem in the Edmonton Journal Literary Competition. Three years later he won second prize in the same competition. While in Canada he published poems in magazines such as: Waves, Quarry, Event, The Antigonish Review and Canadian Author & Bookman. Selections of his poems were aired on the CBC in 1979 and 1980.

Michael Henry’s first wife died of cancer and he brought his family back to Cheltenham in 1980. He had read about the Arvon courses while in Canada and on one of these in Totleigh Barton, he met writer/artist Tricia Torrington, who became his second wife and a valuable support and critic of his poetry. In 1985 he published a pamphlet ‘Lenten Visitor’, which caught the eye of the publisher of Enitharmon Press. With Enitharmon he published ‘An Ocean in My Ear’ (1988), ‘Panto Sphinx’ (1991), ‘Footnote to History’ (2001) and ‘After the Dancing Dogs’ (2008). His fifth collection, ‘Bureau of the Lost and Found’ (2014) was published by Five Seasons Press.

Michael Henry’s poems have appeared in many magazines including Poetry Review, The North, Acumen, Magma, Tears in the Fence, the Warwick Review and the Interpreter’s House. He has been Poet in Profile and had poems published in Orbis and South. He has also been a regular contributor to Time Haiku. His poems appeared in ‘Light Unlocked’ Christmas Card Poems (Enitharmon 2005), ‘Building Jerusalem’ Elegies on Parish Churches (Bloomsbury 2016) and a Canadian anthology ‘Writing the Terrain’ Travelling through Alberta with the Poets (University of Calgary Press 2005).

In 1989 he was awarded a four-week Hawthornden Fellowship and in 1999 he had a poem commended in the National Poetry Competition. He was also a runner-up twice in the Peterloo Open Poetry Competition (2001 and 2004) and in the Bridport Prize (1993). He came 2nd in the Bedford Open Competition (2006), 1st in the Ware Open Poetry Competition (2007) and 3rd in the Poetry London Competition (2010). In 2011 he won 1st prize for a medical poem in the Hippocrates Prize Open Competition and was short-listed in the 2015 Montreal International Poetry Prize.

Michael Henry and Tricia Torrington are currently reworking and adding to a 1986 pamphlet of theirs ‘Rubin’s Figure’, in which they both write complementary poems on the same or a similar topic.

Bracken, Professor Michael

  • P0284
  • Person

St Paul's College student 1962 - 1965
Honorary Doctorate of Science, University of Gloucestershire 2015

Dr. Michael Bracken is the Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Epidemiology, and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Reproductive Science and Neurology, a former Head of Chronic Disease Epidemiology at Yale University and former Vice Chairman (Deputy Dean) of the Yale School of Public Health where he has studied and taught for the last 44 years. He is a sometime Research Fellow in Green Templeton College, Oxford University. Professor Bracken has published some 380 articles in the scientific literature and has authored three books: Perinatal Epidemiology (1984) and Effective Care of the Newborn Infant (with J.C. Sinclair, 1992) both published by Oxford University Press. In 2006 this last book, which introduced the concepts of meta-analysis into neonatology, was named by the British Medical Journal as one of the most influential books in evidence-based medicine and was instrumental in assisting the foundation of the international Cochrane Collaboration. His new book: Risk, Chance and Causation: Investigating the Origins and Treatment of Disease was published by Yale University Press in 2013. He is the founding (in 1979) Director of the Yale Perinatal Epidemiology Unit and Co-Director of its successor, the Yale Center for Perinatal, Pediatric and Environmental Epidemiology. Professor Bracken has taught courses in evidence-based medicine and health care, pharmaco-epidemiology, perinatal epidemiology and general epidemiology at Yale for many years. He has directed numerous epidemiological investigations, almost all of which were funded (over $50 million in total) by the United States National Institutes of Health (NIH). He has served on numerous study sections and committees of the NIH including the Council of the National Institute of Deafness and Communicative Disorders. He chaired the first Congress of Epidemiology in 2001 and the first international colloquium on genome–wide association studies in 2006. He consults for many international corporations and agencies including the World Health Organization and he has served as the elected President of two major epidemiological organizations: the American College of Epidemiology and the Society for Epidemiologic Research. Professor Bracken is the 2013 recipient of the Lilienfeld Award from the American College of Epidemiology.

Compson, Mike

  • P0285
  • Person

St Paul's College student 1964 - 1967
Old Students' Association Executive Committee member

Rogers, Mike

  • P0286
  • Person

St Paul's College student 1956 - 1958

Skinner, Mike

  • P0287
  • Person

Gloucestershire County Councillor for St Marks, St Pauls & St Peters division

Hadley, Mildred

  • P0288
  • Person

St Mary's College student 1932 - 1934

Rostron, Mildred

  • P0289
  • Person

St Mary’s College student 1922-1924

Mayer, Miss B Y

  • P0291
  • Person

Niece of Gertrude Mayer, St Mary's student 1906 - 1908

Hillman, Miss F L

  • P0292
  • Person

St Mary's College student 1931 - 1933

Brown, Miss J A

  • P0294
  • Person

St Mary's College student 1922 - 1924

Brown, Miss M Patricia

  • P0298
  • Person

Sister of Evelyn Lucia Brown, Gloucestershire Training College of Domestic Science student studying Institutional Management January 1946 to December 1947

Holmes, Miss N

  • P0300
  • Person

St Mary's student 1919-1921

Cable, Miss Norah

  • P0301
  • Person

Sister of Fred A Cable, St Paul's College student 1935 - 1937

McKeon, Miss V J

  • P0302
  • Person

Granddaughter of George James, Cheltenham Training College student 1862 - 1864

Palmer, Mr

  • P0305
  • Person

Former student

Stevens, Mrs A

  • P0307
  • Person

Great granddaughter of Philip Mark, Cheltenham Training College student 1850 - 1852

Hughes, Mrs B M

  • P0309
  • Person

St Mary's College student 1931 - 1933

Bradley, Mrs

  • P0310
  • Person

St Mary's College student 1925-1927

Alcock, Mrs C A

  • P0311
  • Person

St Mary's College student 1928 - 1930

Whittam, Mrs D

  • P0313
  • Person

St Mary's College student 1954 - 1956

Chapman, Mrs E T

  • P0317
  • Person

St Mary's College student 1938-1940

Smith, Mrs J C

  • P0321
  • Person

St Mary's College student 1939 - 1941

Fryett, Mrs M

  • P0323
  • Person

Niece of Kathleen Penney, St Mary's College student 1922 - 1924

Myers, Mrs Ruth

  • P0328
  • Person

Niece of H J B Woodfield, St Paul's College student 1921-1923

Aspland, Mrs V

  • P0331
  • Person

Niece of Kathleen W Alder, St Mary's student c.1920s

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