Donald McIntyre

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MBE MID (1891-1954) was a 20th century Scottish gynecologist and medical author.

Early life

McIntyre was born in

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on 29 July 1891 the son of Donald McIntyre. He studied Medicine at Glasgow University graduating MB ChB in 1914. At the outbreak of the

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he joined the

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and served for the duration of the war, based mainly in the Dardanelles and East Africa. He was

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and was granted a military MBE after the war, also being retired on the rank of honorary Major.

Career

After the war he took a Diploma at

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. In 1920 he began working as a Pathologist for the Royal Samaritan Hospital for Women, in

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. He was given his doctorate (MD) in 1926, also being awarded the Bellahouston Gold Medal for his thesis. He stayed at the Royal Samaritan Hospital seven years, rising to be Senior Surgeon. He held multiple medical positions in Glasgow Hospitals and was both a lecturer and examiner at Glasgow University. In 1927 he was elected a Fellow of the

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. His proposers were

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, Diarmid Noel Paton, Sir

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, and Ralph Stockman.

Death

He died on 20 October 1954 in a

nursing home.

Publications

*''Operative Obstetrics'' (1937) *''Combined Textbook of Obstetrics and Gynaecology'' (1950)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:McIntyre, Donald 1891 births 1954 deaths People from Greenock Scottish gynaecologists Alumni of the University of Glasgow Academics of the University of Glasgow Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 20th-century Scottish medical doctors 20th-century Scottish educators