Grafton Elliot Smith

Sir Grafton Elliot Smith, who was among the first enrolments in 1883, was the most “famous” Old Boy of his generation. A world-renowned authority on the brain, an Egyptologist and anthropologist, he became Professor of Anatomy at Victoria University of Manchester, 1909-1919 and Professor of Anatomy at University College, London, 1919-1936. He was President of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1924-1927 and Vice President of the Royal Society, 1913-1914.