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OBE KStJ, TD, BA, DLitt (Lond) (honoris causa), ChM, FRCSEd, FSA (Scot)

Consultant Surgeon and medical historian

Seventeenth President of the Society, 1990-93

Educated at Dundee High School and St Andrews University. National service in the RAMC 1952-55. Consultant Surgeon at Perth Infirmary 1965-96. President of the British Society of the History of Medicine 19__ -19__ .

Author of a number of books including "History of St Andrews University OTC" (1982); "History of Medicine in St Andrews University" (1987); "Ten Tayside Doctors" (1990); "The Dundee Doctors" (in the Dundee boo ed Billy Kay) (1996); (jointly with Major-General A C Ticehurst) "The Royal Army Medical Corps 1898-1998--Reflections of One Hundred Years of Service" (1997); "Medical Services in the British Army" (US Medical Corps Series of 20th Century Medical Military History 1998), and "The Royal Army Medical Corps: A Centenary History", Scottish Academic Press, 1998.