Sir Charles Scott Sherrington OM GBE PRS

This eminent man of medicine had many associations with the town.

In the 1860s the family moved to Anglesea Road being educated at Ipswich School from 1871-1876.

Sherrington played football for his school, for Ipswich Town Football Club, and rugby while a student at St. Thomas' Hospital, London.

After study at Cambridge, work in Liverpool and Oxford, he is most renowned for his research into neurophysiology, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Medicine with Edgar Adrian in 1932. This was for their work on the functions of neurones.

Sherrington, in retirement made his home in the town where he continued to work on his poetic, historical, and philosophical interests. From 1944 he held the honorary office of President of the Ipswich Museum.

The plaque was unveiled on 20th September 2012 by Nicholas Weaver, Headmaster of Ipswich School. Soon afterwards the plaque was replaced as an inaccuracy in the citation was discovered - the terms "Ipswich born" were removed when we were reminded that he was most probably born in north London.