George Ranken Tudhope MD

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DPH (1893–1955) was a 20th-century Scottish pathologist and medical author. The George Ranken Tudhope Prize for best student in Pathology at the

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is named in his honour.

Life

He was born on 7 July 1893 in

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the son of George Tudhope. He was educated at the

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. He studied Medicine at the

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graduating MB ChB in 1918. From 1919 to 1955 he taught Pathology at

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, then a constituent college of St Andrews. He was elected a Fellow of the

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in 1947. His proposers were

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and

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. He was President of the

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Medical Association 1954/55. He died suddenly in Dundee on 13 December 1955 aged 62.

Family

In 1922 he married Elizabeth Florence McCombe (d.1946). In 1949 he married Christian Johnston Bissett. From his first marriage he was father to his namesake George Ranken Tudhope (1924–1998) who also had an eminent career as a doctor.

Publications

*''Thyroid and the Blood'' (1969) -

References

1893 births 1955 deaths People from Newport-on-Tay Scottish pathologists People educated at the High School of Dundee Alumni of the University of St Andrews Academics of the University of St Andrews Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh {{Scotland-med-bio-stub