Dr Archibald McKendrick LDS

FRSE Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and Literature, letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". ...

DPH (1 June 1876 – 2 November 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

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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

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. From 1909 he was working as Surgeon/Dental Surgeon in charge of

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under Dawson Turner (radiologist) with

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at the

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. He was then living at 27 Chalmers Street next to the Infirmary. In 1914 he was elected a Fellow of the

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. His proposers were Arthur Robinson, Henry Harvey Littlejohn,

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, and Thomas William Drinkwater. He died in

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on 2 November 1960 aged 84.

Family

In 1909 he married Gertrude Maud Smith.

References

1876 births 1960 deaths People from Kirkcaldy British radiologists Scottish dentists Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh {{UK-med-bio-stub