Prof Robert Douglas Lockhart

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 ...

LLD FSAS (1894–1987) was a 20th-century Scottish anatomist. He served as president of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1955–57. He was also the official Curator of the

Marischal Museum Marischal Museum was a museum in Aberdeen, Scotland, specialising in anthropology and artifacts from cultures around the world. The museum was a part of the University of Aberdeen, situated at Marischal College, a grand neo-gothic building said ...

Life

He was born in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire on 7 January 1894 the son of William Lockhart, nurseryman, and his wife Elizabeth Bogie. The family moved to Aberdeen in the early 20th century, his father being then employed as an auctioneer in the fruit and vegetable market. They lived at Craigiebuckler Cottage in the

Rubislaw Rubislaw is an area of Aberdeen, Scotland. It is located in the area between Queen's Road and King’s Gate, including Rubislaw Den North and South. It is close to Rubislaw Quarry and the Rubislaw Playing Fields used by Aberdeen Grammar School. ...

district. Robert attended

Robert Gordon's College Robert Gordon's College is a co-educational Independent school (UK) for day pupils in Aberdeen, Scotland. The school caters for pupils from Nursery through to S6. History Robert Gordon, an Aberdeen merchant, made his fortune in 18th century ...

in Aberdeen then studied Medicine at Aberdeen University from 1913. His studies were interrupted by the First World War, where he served as a non-commissioned officer (NCO) with the title of Surgeon Probationer in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve. He graduated MB ChB from Aberdeen in 1918. He immediately began lecturing at the university. In 1931 he succeeded James Couper Brash as Professor of Anatomy at the University of Birmingham. He took his then widowed mother to live with him there. In 1938 he succeeded Prof Alexander Low as Professor of Anatomy at Aberdeen University. Elizabeth Crosby came to work with him in 1939 and, due to war-time travel restrictions, unintentionally remained until 1941. In 1954 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Edward Maitland Wright, John Stirling Young, William Ogilvy Kermack and James Couper Brash. He retired in 1965 but continued the role as Curator of Marischal Museum until 1979. He died at his home, 25 Rubislaw Den North, on 26 February 1987 aged 93. He never married and had no family. He left over £750,000 in his will, largely to scholarships and worthy causes, the bulk going to his alma mater

. A keen horticulturalist, having been trained by his nurseryman father, he created a new black-red rhododendron, "Elizabeth Lockhart", in memory of his mother.

Publications

*''Living Anatomy'' (1948) *''Anatomy of the Human Body'' (1959)

Artistic recognition

His portrait by Herbert James Gunn hangs in Aberdeen University.

Links

Portrait on Art UK

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lockhart, Robert Douglas 1894 births 1987 deaths People associated with Aberdeen People educated at Robert Gordon's College Alumni of the University of Aberdeen Academics of the University of Aberdeen British anatomists Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Presidents of the Anatomical Society