Alfred Henry Garrod, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alfred Henry Garrod

zoologist

Date of Birth: 18-May-1846

Place of Birth: London Borough of Islington, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 17-Oct-1879

Profession: zoologist, university teacher

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Alfred Henry Garrod FRS (May 18, 1846 – October 17, 1879) was an English vertebrate zoologist. Garrod was born in London, the eldest son of Sir Alfred Baring Garrod (1819–1907), a physician at King's College Hospital, who discovered the abnormal uric acid metabolism associated with gout.
He was also the eldest brother of Archibald Edward Garrod (1857–1936), an English physician who pioneered the field of inborn errors of metabolism.