George Ian Scott

Prof George Ian Scott FRSE PRCSE (1907–1989) was a 20th century Scottish physician and ophthalmic surgeon. He was President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh from 1964 to 1967, the first ophthalmologist in this role.[1] He was President of the Ophthalmic Society of the UK 1970 to 1972.

Life

He was born in Glasgow on 15 March 1907 the son of George John Scott, an agent for the Union Bank, living at "Pentlands" a villa on Monreith Road in the Newlands district of southern Glasgow.[2]

He was educated at St Mary's Preparatory School in Melrose then at Edinburgh Academy !921-1925). He then studied Science at Edinburgh gaining an MA in 1929, then specialising in Medicine to graduate MB ChB in 1933. He then began as an Ophthalmic Surgeon at Leith Hospital in north Edinburgh.[3]

In the Second World War he was an Ophthalmic Specialist in the Royal Army Medical Corps (Scottish Command) then was invited to join the Chemical Weapons section at Porton Down before going to the Middle East as an Ophthalmic Surgeon with the rank of Brigadier.

In 1953 he joined Edinburgh Royal Infirmary as Ophthalmic Surgeon and from 1954 was also Professor of Ophthalmologoy at Edinburgh University.

In 1954 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir Robert Muir, Sir James Learmonth, Arthur H. H. Sinclair and Alexander Murray Drennan.[4]

He retired in 1972 and died in Edinburgh on 22 May 1989.

Family

In 1946 he married Maxine Vandamm.

References


  1. ↑ Time and Tide vol45
  2. ↑ Glasgow Post Office Directory 1907
  3. ↑ 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.
  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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