Archibald McKendrick

Dr Archibald McKendrick LDS FRSE DPH (1876–1960) was a Scottish dentist and radiologist. He was one of the first people in Britain to use X-rays in dentistry.

Life

He was born in Kirkcaldy in Fife on 1 June 1876, the son of James D. McKendrick, dental surgeon. He followed in his father’s footsteps and qualified as a Dentist in Edinburgh in 1899. In 1907 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

From 1909 he was working as Surgeon/Dental Surgeon in charge of Radiology under Dawson Turner with William Hope Fowler at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. He was then living at 27 Chalmers Street next to the Infirmary.[1] In 1914 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Arthur Robinson, Henry Harvey Littlejohn, David Berry Hart, and Thomas William Drinkwater.[2]

He died in Edinburgh on 2 November 1960 aged 84.

Family

In 1906 he married Gertrude Maud Smith.

References

  1. ↑ Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1911-12
  2. ↑ 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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