PENROSE,LIONET,SHARPLES (1898-1972) - ASPECTS OF THE MAN AND HIS WORKS, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO HIS UNDERTAKINGS IN THE FIELDS OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY AND MENTAL DISORDER

The Penrose Club, named after Professor L.S. Penrose, is a society of academic psychiatrists in the UK with a particular focus on research i n the sphere of intellectual disability. The inaugural lecture of the Club was delivered at the Institute of Psychiatry, London, on 29 Novem ber 1996. It is distinctly fitting that this lecture should appear in print in the Journal of Intellectual Disability Research in the centen ary year of Professor Penrose's birth, both because of his major pione ering contributions to the field with which JIDR is concerned and beca use he played a crucial role in the founding of the Journal.