Joseph Arthur Arkwright

Sir Joseph Arthur Arkwright MA MD MRCS FRCP FRS (22 March 1864 – 22 November 1944) was a medical doctor.

[1][2][3] He was born at Thurlaston, Leicestershire, England, the youngest of the five children of Arthur William Arkwright, a farmer, of Broughton Hall, Astley, Leicestershire and his wife and second cousin, Emma, daughter of John Wolley, of Beeston, Nottinghamshire.

He completed his medical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital (Barts), London, qualifying in 1889.

[1] In 1906 he joined the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, first as a voluntary worker, then as assistant bacteriologist from 1908.

His early work considered the spread of diphtheria in schools and the differentiation of meningococcus strains.

In 1915 during the First World War he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and was posted to Malta.

Together with Arthur Bacot and F. Martin Duncan he demonstrated the association of the trench fever virus with Rickettsia quintana in lice.