Millais Culpin

Born in Ware, Hertfordshire, on 6 January 1874, he first worked as a schoolteacher before qualifying in medicine and building an early career as a surgeon. He later became best known as an English physician, psychotherapist, and psychologist, with a professional life that bridged conventional medicine and the growing study of the mind.

During the First World War, he treated soldiers suffering from shell shock at Ewell War Hospital, work that helped shape his later reputation. He went on to write and lecture on psychotherapy, nervous disorders, and clinical psychology, and is remembered as one of the figures who helped make psychological medicine more visible and respectable in Britain.

He died in St Albans on 14 September 1952. Beyond medicine, he also had a long-standing interest in entomology, which adds another layer to a life that was notably wide-ranging and curious.