Dr Archibald McKendrick LDS

FRSE Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". This soci ...

DPH (1 June 1876 – 2 November 1960) was a Scottish dentist and radiologist. He was one of the first people in Britain to use X-rays in dentistry.

Life

He was born in

Kirkcaldy Kirkcaldy ( ; sco, Kirkcaldy; gd, Cair Chaladain) is a town and former royal burgh in Fife, on the east coast of Scotland. It is about north of Edinburgh and south-southwest of Dundee. The town had a recorded population of 49,460 in 2011, ...

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on 1 June 1876, the son of James D. McKendrick, dental surgeon. He followed in his father's footsteps and qualified as a Dentist in Edinburgh in 1899. In 1907 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. From 1909 he was working as Surgeon/Dental Surgeon in charge of Radiology under Dawson Turner with

William Hope Fowler William Hope Fowler CVO FRSE FRCSE (14 March 1876–4 October 1933) was a Scottish medical doctor and pioneer of radiology. He was co-founder of the Edinburgh School of Radiology. Life He was born in Edinburgh on 14 March 1876, the son of Rob ...

at the

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. He was then living at 27 Chalmers Street next to the Infirmary. In 1914 he was elected a Fellow of the

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. His proposers were Arthur Robinson, Henry Harvey Littlejohn, David Berry Hart, and Thomas William Drinkwater. He died in Edinburgh on 2 November 1960 aged 84.

Family

In 1909 he married Gertrude Maud Smith.

References

1876 births 1960 deaths People from Kirkcaldy British radiologists Scottish dentists Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh {{UK-med-bio-stub