page_title: Charles Thurstan Holland
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Charles Thurstan Holland / Life
caption_attribution_description: English: Creator: Unknown Date: 1908 Format: Photograph Material: Paper Collection: The Royal Photographic Society Collection at the National Media Museum Inventory no: 2003-5001/2/22843 Blog post: Snappy 5th birthday Flickr Commons Full title reads: [standing:] C. F. Stuart, J. Dudley Johnston; [sitting:] Dr. J. W. Ellis, Dr. C. Thurstan Holland, Chairman, Charles F. Inston, Secretary - Northern Photographic Exhibition, Liverpool. John Dudley Johnston (1868 - 1955) was born in Liverpool. He studied music and was, at one time, Director of the Liverpool Philharmonic Society. He was a noted Pictorialist photographer, a collector, curator and driving force behind the Royal Photographic Society's photographic collection. He was an elected member of the RPS in 1907; admitted FRPS in 1925; awarded Hon. FRPS in 1925; President of the RPS 1923 to 1925 and again 1929 to 1931; awarded RPS Progress Medal in 1952. Curator of the RPS Collection from 1924 to 1955. Elected Member of the The Brotherhood of the Linked Ring, 22 Oct 1908. Awarded OBE for services to photography in 1948. Charles Frederick Inston (d. 1917) became Secretary then President of the Liverpool Amateur Photographic Society. He was an elected member of the RPS in 1896 and Fellow in 1901; organiser of the Northern Photographic Exhibition.
context_page_description: Charles Thurstan Holland TD DL FRCS was a general practitioner in Liverpool who was best known by his pioneering research in the field of Radiology. The Thurstan Holland sign is named after him.
context_section_description: Charles Thurstan Holland was born in March 1863 at Bridgwater, Somerset to William Thomas Holland and his wife Florence Holland (née Florence Du Val), the second daughter of painter Charles Allen Du Val.
  He studied medicine at the University College in London, qualifying in 1888. From October 1896 to 1904 he was honorary radiologist to the Royal Liverpool Hospital and from 1904 to 1923 to the Liverpool Royal Infirmary.
  He started research on Radiology in 1896, after reading about Wilhelm Röntgen's experiments in this field. Thanks to his meticulous work and advancements in his technique, Holland was able to produce radiographs that were far in advance for many years, compared to the standard practice. Along with such names as Heinrich Albers-Schönberg (Germany), Antoine Béclère (France), Etienne Henrard (Belgium), Guido Holzknecht and Robert Kienböck (Austria), Thurstan Holland is considered one of the pioneers in Europe.
  Holland took part in the First World War as a Major in the Royal Army Medical Corps, and his abilities as radiologist were invaluable in treating patients with bullets lodged in their bodies. By the end of the War, a number of proposals on how to measure the intensity of X-rays had been made, but there was little agreement between the various parties concerned. In 1925 the British Institute of Radiology, under Holland's leadership invited delegates from a number of countries to attend the First International Congress on Radiation in London. This congress set up a framework for future meetings — future congresses would meet every three years in a different country, and be organised by the host country.
  Thurstan Holland was also a talented photographer, being elected the first President of the Lancashire and Cheshire Photographers' Society.
  He died on 16 January 1941 in Liverpool.
caption: Holland (sitting in the middle) and friends at the Northern Photographic Exhibition, Liverpool (1908)
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