F. W. (Frederick Walker) Mott

Born in Brighton on 23 October 1853, Sir Frederick Walker Mott became one of Britain's leading figures in neuropathology and psychiatry. He studied medicine in London and built a career that linked hospital medicine, laboratory science, and the study of mental illness.

Mott is especially remembered for his research on the nervous system and on how physical changes in the brain and body relate to psychiatric disorders. He worked with the London County asylums, lectured widely, and was recognized with major honors including election as a Fellow of the Royal Society and a knighthood.

He died on 8 June 1926 in Birmingham. Today he is still noted as an important early investigator of the brain and of the biological side of mental health, though some aspects of his wider social views are now read in the context of his time.