George Hector Percival
FRSE
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FRCPE (1902–1983) was a British dermatologist, academic author and president of the
British Association of Dermatologists
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The ''British Journal of De ...
.
Life
He was born in
Kirkcaldy
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in
Fife
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the son of E J Percival.
Percival was educated at
George Watson's College
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in
Edinburgh
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. He then studied Medicine at the
University of Edinburgh
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, graduating MB ChB
He joined the
Edinburgh Royal Infirmary
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's skin department in 1923, rising to become Consultant-in-Charge (Physician) in 1936. From 1946 he was the Grant Professor of Dermatology at the University of Edinburgh.
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He became an eminent dermatologist, a fellow of the ]Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
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, and president of the British Association of Dermatologists
The British Association of Dermatologists is a charity established in 1920 whose charitable objects are the practice, teaching, training, and research of dermatology. It produces the ''British Journal of Dermatology
The ''British Journal of De ...
in 1961–62. In 1928 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
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. His proposers were George Barger
George Barger FRS FRSE FCS LLD (4 April 1878 – 5 January 1939) was a British chemist.
Life
He was born to an English mother, Eleanor Higginbotham, and Gerrit Barger, a Dutch engineer in Manchester, England.
He was educated at Utrecht and T ...
, David Murray Lyon
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Life
He was born in ...
, Arthur Logan Turner
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and James Lorrain Smith
James Lorrain Smith FRS FRSE FRCPE (21 August 1862 – 18 April 1931) was a Scottish pathologist known for his works in human physiology, especially his research on respiration in collaboration with John Scott Haldane.
Life
He was born in th ...
. He resigned from the Society in 1933.
His research contributions included work on correlating skin diseases with calcium metabolism and parathyroid hormone, and vascular chemical mediators involved in cutaneous inflammation.
He died in Edinburgh on 3 April 1983.
Publications
* ''An Introduction to Dermatology'' (1967) included as an author from the 9th Edition
* ''Atlas of Histopathology of the Skin'' (1962)
* ''An Atlas of Regional Dermatology''
Family
In 1937 he married Kathleen Dawson.
References
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1902 births
1983 deaths
People from Kirkcaldy
British dermatologists
People educated at George Watson's College
Academics of the University of Edinburgh
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
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20th-century non-fiction writers