Percy George Shute

Percy George Shute MBE OBE (16 May 1894 – 26 January 1977) was an English malariologist and entomologist who worked at the Mott Clinic at the Horton Hospital in Essex which was also known from 1952 to 1973 as the Malaria Reference Laboratory.

Shute was born, the ninth child of plumber Sidney Thomas and Rose Helena Leyman in Honiton.

After contracting the disease he returned to England in 1917 and while convalescing at Guildford Hospital he met Ronald Ross at the pathology laboratory who trained him in staining parasites and dissecting mosquitoes.

He later trained in malaria treatment under Julius Wagner-Jauregg from 1922 and was involved in the establishment of the Mott Clinic at the Horton Hospital in 1925.

They had two children, a son, Gerald Thomas Shute (1922-1996) who also became a parasitologist and a daughter, Pauline who died young.