David White Finlay

Prof David White Finlay FRSE FRCP LLD (1840-1923) was a Scottish physician and yachtsman. He was Regius Professor of Medicine at Aberdeen University 1891 to 1912. He was Honorary Physician to the King in Scotland to both King Edward VII and King George V.

Life

He was born at 6 Ure Place in Glasgow[1] on 1 September 1840 in Glasgow, the son of James Finlay, a partner in the firm of Finlay & Neilson.[2] He attended Glasgow High School before studying Medicine at Glasgow University graduating BA in 1860 and gaining his doctorate (MD) in 1864. After some years of foreign travel and further studies (including Vienna) he settled in London in 1873. He then worked in St James and St Georges Dispensary, and in the Stone Hospital before moving to the Middlesex Hospital. In 1881 he began lecturing in both Forensic Medicine. In 1883 he undertook a Diploma in Public Health at Cambridge University adding this to his lecturing thereafter, and then added Practical Medicine to his repertoire in 1884.[3]

In 1891 he gained a chair at Aberdeen University and left London. He also took on a role as Physician at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. In 1899 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, John Gray McKendrick, John Glaister and Sir Thomas Oliver.[4] He served on the General Medical Council from 1901 to 1911. In 1907 he became Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Aberdeen.

In 1912 he retired to Helensburgh but came out of retirement in 1914 to assist during the First World War serving at the Scottish National Red Cross Hospital in Bellahouston at the rank of Lt Colonel in the Royal Army Medical Corps.

He died in Helensburgh on 4 November 1923.

Publications

Family

In 1878 he was married to Catherine Mary Thompson, daughter of the shipowner Stephen Thompson. They had two sons and four daughters.

References

  1. ↑ Glasgow Post Office Directory 1840
  2. ↑ http://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH11337&type=P
  3. ↑ http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/1539
  4. ↑ BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF FORMER FELLOWS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH 1783 – 2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.
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