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BY the death on July 8 of Henry Havelock Ellis, both science and literature have sustained a heavy loss. Havelock Ellis was born at Croydon eighty years ago. At sixteen years of age, owing to ill-health, he was sent to Australia, and later became an assistant schoolmaster in a suburb of Sydney. During a lonely adolescence he was greatly troubled by moral and spiritual difficulties, and decided to devote his life to systematic inquiries that should make clear to himself and to others the real nature of the problems of sex. With this in view he returned to London, and trained as a general practitioner at St. Thomas's Hospital.
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Mr. H. Havelock Ellis. Nature 144, 183 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144183a0
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