James David Provins Graham

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 ...

FRCPSG FRCPE (8 February 1914 – 16 May 1989) was a Scottish physician, pharmacologist and academic author. He wrote on neurotransmissions in relation to chemical influence, including issues of drug dependence. He established the Welsh Poisons Information Service. In 1973 he sat on the first Committee on the

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. In authorship he standardly appears as J D P Graham.

Early life

He was born in

Barrhead Barrhead ( sco, Baurheid, gd, Ceann a' Bharra) is a town in East Renfrewshire, Scotland, southwest of Glasgow city centre on the edge of the Gleniffer Braes. At the 2011 census its population was 17,268. History Barrhead was formed when ...

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on 8 February 1914. He was educated at Barrhead High School and

Hyndland Secondary School Hyndland Secondary School is a non-denominational state comprehensive school in the Hyndland area of Glasgow, Scotland. The school provides secondary education for children from the local area, although there are many children from other areas ...

, then studied Medicine at

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and graduated BSc in 1937. He received his doctorate (MD) in 1939. In the

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he was commissioned in March 1941 and later served in the

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at the rank of captain, attached to the 8th Army. After the war he was promoted to major, serving at the military hospital at

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in Scotland.

Academic career

In 1946 he began lecturing in Pharmacology at

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as an ICI Research Fellow. In 1948 he moved to the

Welsh National School of Medicine The Cardiff University School of Medicine ( cy, Ysgol Feddygaeth Prifysgol Caerdydd) is the medical school of Cardiff University and is located in Cardiff, Wales, UK. Founded in 1893 as part of the University College of South Wales and Monmouth ...

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as a Senior Lecturer in Pharmacology and Toxicology becoming a Professor in 1971. In 1965 he moved with his wife Ann to Ty Cwm Cottage near

Llanthony Llanthony (, cy, Llanddewi Nant Honddu ) is a village in the community of Crucorney on the northern edge of Monmouthshire, South East Wales, United Kingdom. Location Llanthony is located in the Vale of Ewyas, a deep and long valley with g ...

in the

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. In 1969 he was elected a Fellow of the

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. His proposers were

William Alexander Bain William Alexander Bain FRSE DSc (20 August 1905 – 24 August 1971) was a Scottish pharmacologist, best known for his early work with antihistamine drugs. Early life He was born in Dunbar in East Lothian, the son of Grace Martin Brough and ...

, George Howard Bell, James Brough and Henry M Adam. He retired in 1979. He died on 16 May 1989.

Publications

*''The Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute Poisoning'' (1962) *''Pharmacology for Medical Students'' (1971) *''

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and Health'' (1976) *''Cannabis Now'' (1977) *''An Introduction to Human Pharmacology'' (1979)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Graham, James David Provins 1914 births 1989 deaths People from Barrhead People educated at Hyndland Secondary School Alumni of the University of Glasgow British pharmacologists Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 20th-century non-fiction writers