He went to Grove Park School in Wrexham and at Mold, Flintshire before attending Victoria University of Manchester where he received a B.Sc honours degree in science and an M.Sc.
Victoria University of Manchester, originally Owens College and for much of its history known simply as "Manchester University".
Drake earned his B.S. degree in Geology with honors from Victoria University of Manchester in Manchester, England in 1967 and earned his Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Oregon in 1972.
M. P. Joseph holds a Masters Degree in Human Resources Development from the Victoria University of Manchester, UK and a Masters Degree in Solid State Physics from the Cochin University of Science and Technology.
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Hill returned to Cambridge in 1919 before taking the chair in physiology at the Victoria University of Manchester in 1920.
He undertook post-doctoral research at IBM in San Jose, California, and at the University of Manchester.
In 1966 he was appointed as Harrison Professor of Botany in the University of Manchester.
In 1985-86, as part of a rationalisation, he moved to the Victoria University of Manchester and established the Centre for the History of Science and Technology (CHSTM), including the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine and the National Archive for the History of Computing before directing the Centre until 2002 when he became a Research Professor.
He was educated first at William Hulme's Grammar School, then studied medicine at Owens College, Manchester, and the London Hospital.
Three were built: the first for Manchester University, and one each for BP and for the Atlas Computer Laboratory in Oxfordshire.
He entered the Victoria University of Manchester to study medicine and qualified in 1909 from both Victoria and London Universities.
In 1881 the Charity Commissioners empowered the trust to use its funds to establish two schools – one in Manchester (William Hulme's Grammar School) and one in Oldham (Hulme Grammar School), and to fund new buildings for an existing school (Bury Grammar School) – as well as a hall of residence for Anglican students (in Owens College, then the only constituent college of the University of Manchester).
It was a flagship hall of UMIST and became a University of Manchester hall when UMIST and Victoria University of Manchester merged into The University of Manchester.