Dr John Souttar McKendrick
FRSE
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(1874-1946) was a Scottish physician from the eminent McKendrick family. He served as President of the
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow
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Founded by Peter Lowe after receiving a royal charter by James VI in 1599, as the Glasgow Faculty, it originally exist ...
in 1939.
Life
He was born in 1874 the eldest son of
John Gray McKendrick and his wife, Mary Souttar. His younger brother was
Anderson Gray McKendrick. He was educated at
Kelvinside Academy
Kelvinside Academy is an independent day school in Glasgow, Scotland, founded in 1878. It has a capacity of over 600 pupils and spans two years of Nursery, six years of Junior School (primary school), a transition year of Senior Preparatory, and ...
.
He studied Medicine at
Glasgow University and graduated MB ChB in 1896.
In the
First World War
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he served at the Bellahouston Red Cross Hospital. He was also assistant Physician at the Glasgow Western Infirmary. He lived at 2 Buckingham Terrace in
Glasgow
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at this time.
In 1900 he was elected a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh
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. His proposers were his father,
John Gray McKendrick,
Magnus Maclean,
Byrom Bramwell and
Alexander Buchan.
He died on 31 October 1946. He is buried in
Carrbridge Cemetery in northern Scotland.
Family
He was married to Emmeline McKendrick (1881-1959). Their children included Dr John Wellesley McKendrick (1915-1950).
Publications
*''Remarks on
Jacksonian Epilepsy'' (1899)
*''Epitheliomia of the Oesophagus'' (1900)
References
1874 births
1946 deaths
People educated at Kelvinside Academy
Alumni of the University of Glasgow
19th-century Scottish medical doctors
20th-century Scottish medical doctors
Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
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