George Ranken Tudhope
20th-century Scottish pathologist and medical author
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George Ranken Tudhope MD FRSE DPH (1893–1955) was a 20th-century Scottish pathologist and medical author.
The George Ranken Tudhope Prize for best student in Pathology at the University of Dundee is named in his honour.[citation needed]
Life
He was born on 7 July 1893 in Newport-on-Tay in Fife the son of George Tudhope. He was educated at the High School of Dundee.[1]
He studied medicine at the University of St Andrews, graduating MB ChB in 1918. From 1919 to 1955 he taught pathology at University College, Dundee, then a constituent college of St Andrews.[2]
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1947. His proposers were Robert Campbell Garry, Edward Thomas Copson, Robert Percival Cook and Alexander David Peacock.[3]
He was President of the Forfarshire Medical Association 1954/55.[1]
He died suddenly in Dundee on 13 December 1955 aged 62.[2]
Family
In 1922 he married Elizabeth Florence McCombe (d.1946). In 1949 he married Christian Johnston Bissett.[4][full citation needed]
From his first marriage he was father to his namesake George Ranken Tudhope (1924–1998) who also had an eminent career as a doctor.[5]
Publications
- Thyroid and the Blood (1969) - ISBN 9780433328308
