John Duncan (surgeon)

Dr John Duncan FRSE LLD (1839-1899) was a Scottish surgeon who served as President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 1889 to 1891. On his father's death in 1866 he took over as director of the major drug manufacturer Duncan Flockhart & Co.

Life

The Duncan grave in Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh

He was born on 18 August 1839 the son of Dr James Duncan then residing at 7 Dundas Street.[1] He studied at the High School in Edinburgh then studied Medicine at Edinburgh University. He graduated MA and received his doctorate (MD) in 1862. Part of his early training was under James Syme.[2]

In 1866 he inherited his father's house at 12 Heriot Row.[3] In 1870 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, his proposer being John Hutton Balfour. From 1875 he was assistant surgeon at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary being promoted to Senior Surgeon in 1887.[4] He also served on the Board of Managers for the Infirmary.[5] In 1890 Dr Henry Alexis Thomson worked under him as his assistant.[6] He retired as a surgeon in 1895 (that being the standard practice in those days).

His Edinburgh home was 8 Ainslie Place[7] on the exclusive Moray Estate in western Edinburgh.

He died at Kinloch on the Isle of Skye on 24 August 1899, a few days after his 60th birthday. He is buried with his parents and wife on "Lord's Row" on the western wall of Dean Cemetery.

Family

His wife Jemima (1841-1885) died aged only 44.

Their daughter Eliza Alexandra Duncan died in 1943 aged 74.

He was the uncle to William James Stuart FRSE (1874-1859)

Publications

References

  1. ↑ Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1839-40
  2. ↑ History of Scottish Medicine- vol 2, p.677
  3. ↑ Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1866-67
  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.
  5. ↑ https://library.rcsed.ac.uk/docs/GD23_Papers_of_the_Littlejohns.pdf
  6. ↑ http://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/biogs/E003266b.htm
  7. ↑ Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1898-99
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