page_title: Horace Joules
section_title: Early life and education
hierarchical_section_title: Horace Joules / Early life and education
caption_attribution_description: A patient at home. Oil painting by D. Mary Barber. Iconographic Collections
context_page_description: Horace Joules LRCP, MRCP, MRCS, FRCP was a British physician, health administrator and health campaigner, who played an important role in promoting public health and preventative medicine; particularly the link between cigarette smoking and lung cancer following the work of Richard Doll, Austin Bradford Hill, Ernst Wynder and Evarts Graham, and the adverse effects of air pollution.
context_section_description: Horace Joules was born at Woodseaves, High Offley Road, Newport, Shropshire, on 21 March 1902. He was the son of Richard Edgar Joules, a master grocer, and his wife, Emily Ann (née Hyatt), and one of ten children. His family were Primitive Methodists and his father was politically radical and a strict teetotaller. Joules was educated at Newport Grammar School before studying medicine at University College Cardiff and at Middlesex Hospital Medical School. He passed his medical degree in 1925, and in 1928 he achieved Membership of the Royal Colleges of Physicians and was awarded a Medicinae Doctor (MD) with a gold medal from the University of London.
caption: 'A Patient at Home'. A painting by Dorothy Mary Barber commissioned by Horace Joules. The old man in the painting was a bronchitic and arthritic patient of the hospital: he lived in Harlesden. He was painted in his hospital bed, but the room was painted from outside the window of his dwelling, as the artist was deterred from entering by the smell.
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