Dr James Hunter Harvey Pirie FRSE

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(10 December 1878 – 27 September 1965"Dr. J.H. Harvey Pirie" in ''

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, orchid-grower and

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. Pirie named the bacterial genus ''

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'' in honor of

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and the Pirie Peninsula is named after him. Cape Mabel was named after his wife. In authorship he is known as J. H. H. Pirie. Scotia naturalists wilton, brown and pirie aboard scotia

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Life

He was born in

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the son of Dr John Pirie of 26 Elmbank Crescent. Pirie was commissioned into the Royal Field Artillery as a second lieutenant on 28 March 1900, but resigned from the military later the same year. He earned his first medical degree at

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graduating MB ChB in 1902. From 1902 until 1904 he participated in the

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on the ex-whaling ship ''

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'', under

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, Pirie acting as both surgeon and geologist. This involved spending the majority of 1903 on a makeshift base on the South Orkney Islands. He went on to postgraduate studies at the

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and was awarded his doctorate (MD) in 1907 after producing his thesis - 'On the smaller polygonal cells of the grey matter of the spinal cord'. In 1908 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were

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, Alexander Bruce, Henry Harvey Littlejohn, and David Waterston. He later worked in a private medical practice in Scotland. In 1913, he joined the Colonial Medical Service in

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as a bacteriologist and he became deputy director at the South African Institute for Medical Research in

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from 1926 till 1941.

Philately

Pirie was a noted

with a specialism in the philately of the polar regions. He was Editor of the ''South African Philatelist'' for thirty-six years, and wrote important works on the stamps of Swaziland and the New Republic. He signed the

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in 1948 and in the same year, the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists of South Africa.RDPSA
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Publications

* ''The Voyage of the Scotia, being a record of a voyage of exploration in the Antarctic Seas'' by Robert Mossman, James Hunter Harvey Pirie, and Robert Neal Rudmose-Brown, C. Hurst London (1906) *''Medical Jurisprudence'' (1911)

References and sources

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James Hunter Harvey Pirie collection.

Brief biography of his wife Mabel.
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Life

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