Sir David Drummond

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(December 1852 – 28 April 1932) was an Anglo-Irish

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and president of the

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. He was warden and

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of the

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between 1920 and 1922, having also served as the president of the University's College of Medicine in Newcastle. Drummond was the son of David Drummond of

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. He studied medicine at

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, graduating MB and MCh in 1874. He was initially an assistant physician at the Sick Children's Hospital, Newcastle, before being elected to the position of honorary pathologist and physician at the

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, Newcastle, in 1878. He retired in 1912 as consulting physician. During the

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, he served as senior physician at the Northumberland War Hospital, for which he was appointed

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(CBE) in January 1920. Drummond's academic career at Durham spanned over fifty years. He eventually succeeded Sir George Hare Philipson as Professor of the Principles and Practice of Medicine, having previously held lectureships in

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and

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. He was a Fellow of the

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and the

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. From 1925 to 1926, Drummond served as a member of the Royal Commission on Lunacy Law and Administration. Drummond was

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in 1923.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Drummond, David 1852 births 1932 deaths Medical doctors from Dublin (city) Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Knights Bachelor Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Vice-Chancellors and Wardens of Durham University Irish military doctors 19th-century Irish medical doctors 20th-century Irish medical doctors Academics of Newcastle University Presidents of the British Medical Association