Robert Crowe Curran FRCP

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(28 July 1921 – 5 September 2006) was a British pathologist, Leith Professor of Pathology,

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, 1966–1986. He served as President of the Royal College of Pathologists from 1981 to 1984.

Life

He was born in

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in central

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the son of John Hamilton Curran, ex-foreman of the local steelworks, and his wife, Sarah Carson Crowe. His brother was the physicist Sir Samuel Crowe Curran. He was educated at Wishaw High School then studied Medicine at

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graduating in 1943. From 1945 until 1947 he served as a physician with the

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in India. From 1950 to 1955 he lectured in Pathology at

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. In 1955 he became Senior Lecturer in Pathology at

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before receiving a Professorship from St Thomas' Medical School in

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in 1958. In 1966 he moved to the chair in Pathology at

. He was elected a Fellow of the

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but resigned in October 2000. He died on 5 September 2006, aged 85.

Publications

*''Colour Atlas of Histopathology'' (1996)

Family

He married Margaret Marion Park in 1947 following demobilisation from the army. They had one son, Andrew Curran, and one daughter, Marjorie Curran.

References

1921 births 2006 deaths British pathologists Academics of the University of Birmingham {{UK-med-bio-stub