MB, FRCPEdin., DPH

Medical Officer of Health

Second President of the Society, 1951-54

A co-founder of the Society

Fine classical scholar. Noted authority on the history of plague, especially in Scotland

Author of numerous important works on public health, plague, and author of a History of the Laboratory of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1953) of which he was the last Curator. An accomplished short-story writer.