W. H. Gaskell

Walter Holbrook Gaskell FRS (1 November 1847; Naples – 7 September 1914; Great Shelford) was a British physiologist.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1882 and gave their Croonian lecture of that year.

In 1875 Walter Gaskell married Catherine Sharpe Parker, first cousin of the London architect Horace Field.

The family settled near Cambridge where he remained for the rest of his life, residing first at Grantchester and later at Great Shelford, where he built a hilltop home, The Uplands, designed by Horace Field, opposite the hill on which stood Michael Foster's home, Nine Wells House.

[8] In 1990 a major fire destroyed the house and its ruins still stand today in dense woodland on land now owned by a Cambridge College.