Richard Norris Wolfenden

Richard Norris Wolfenden (1854-1926) was an English physician and oceanographer

Life

Wolfenden was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge. He practised as a London physician, and lectured in physiology at the Charing Cross Hospital medical school. He was House Physician at the London Hospital and Senior Physician at the Throat Hospital, Golden Square, London. He founded and edited the Journal of Laryngology and Rhinology.

As well as his medical practice, Wolfenden also interested himself in oceanography.

Together with George Herbert Fowler, Wolfenden founded the Challenger Society for Marine Science in 1903.

Works

• On infantile cerebral paralysis, 1886
• Studies in pathological anatomy, especially in relation to laryngeal neoplasms, 1888
• Copepoda, 1908
• Scientific and biological researches in the North Atlantic : conducted by the author on his yachts 'The Walwin' and 'The Silver Belle', 1909