User:AnnScottGowers

I am a new Wikipedia editor. I am an academic with expertise on the British neurologist William Richard Gowers, whose biography I wrote with Professors Mervyn Eadie and Andrew Lees ('William Richard Gowers 1845-1915: Exploring the Victorian Brain, OUP, 2012'). I am updating the Wikipedia page on William Gowers, referencing our book and other authoritative sources. Our biography, based on extensive primary archival research, revealed a great deal of fresh information about him. I chose to write about Gowers because of a family connection – he was my great grandfather - so I had access to family records. However my interest is primarily academic. I began revising the existing entry based on our biography, which has been described by reviewers as the definitive work on William Gowers' life. I have been expanding the references to include other sources, and have included a list of Gowers’ major publications. I would appreciate making contact with other Wikipedia editors interested in Gowers and grateful for any advice.

I have also edited the entry for Ernest Arthur Gowers, for the same reasons as the changes I made to the William Richard Gowers entry. I wrote a biography of Ernest Gowers, published by Macmillan in 2009, for which I undertook extensive primary research in a range of archives and family papers.