Dr George Ritchie Gilruth FRSE LRCP LRCSE (24 October 1842 – 15 August 1921) was a Scottish surgeon and author.

Life

He was born on 24 October 1842 the son of Eliza Ritchie and John, writing master in

Leith Leith (; gd, Lìte) is a port area in the north of the city of Edinburgh, Scotland, founded at the mouth of the Water of Leith. In 2021, it was ranked by ''Time Out'' as one of the top five neighbourhoods to live in the world. The earliest ...

just north of

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and living at 28 Constitution Street. He is presumed to have studied medicine at the

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. He qualified as a surgeon in 1865. In 1877 he was living at 9 Union Street in Edinburgh and is noted as a qualified surgeon. He was a demonstrator in anatomy at the

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. In 1880 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were William Ferguson,

Andrew Douglas Maclagan Sir Andrew Douglas Maclagan PRSE FRCPE FRCSE FCS FRSSA (17 April 1812, in Ayr – 5 April 1900, in Edinburgh) was a Scottish surgeon, toxicologist and scholar of medical jurisprudence. He served as president of 5 learned societies: the Royal ...

, Patrick Heron Watson and

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. In June 1888 he is noted as an acting surgeon in the Edinburgh City Artillery Volunteer Corps. He was then living at 48 Nothumberland Street. In 1911 he is noted as living at 53 Northumberland Street in

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.Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1911-12 He later worked as resident surgeon at Consett Infirmary in the north of England. He died at Allanton near

Bridge of Allan Bridge of Allan ( sco, Brig Allan, gd, Drochaid Ailein), also known colloquially as ''Bofa'', is a town in the Stirling council area in Scotland, just north of the city of Stirling. Overlooked by the National Wallace Monument, it lies on the ...

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, on 15 August 1921.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gilruth, George Ritchie 1842 births 1921 deaths Scottish surgeons Medical doctors from Leith Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh