Ernest McMurchie Dunlop

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MC (1893–1969) was a Scottish bacteriologist who also served with distinction in the

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, winning the Military Cross.

Life

He was born in

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on 15 November 1893 the son of Thomas Dunlop, a chemist in the

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district, and his wife Grace McFadyean. He attended

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and in 1910, aged 16, went to

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to study Medicine. He received distinctions in Anatomy and Physiology and also qualified in Gynaecology. In 1916 he won the Brunton Memorial Prize for Distinction in Medicine. He then volunteered for the

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his battalion being attached to the 14th battalion Worcestershire Regiment, landing in

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on 21 June 1916. He was raised to Lieutenant on 9 August 1916. He reached the rank of Captain and was awarded the Military Cross on 1 January 1919 for bravery during the conflict. In 1919 he returned to civilian life and gained a post at

. In 1922 he began lecturing in Bacteriology. In 1932 he received a Chair in Bacteriology at

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and remained there until retiral in 1959. In 1944 he was elected a Fellow of the

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. His proposers were

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, and Thomas J. Mackie. He retired to

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in his native Scotland and died there on 29 April 1969.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dunlop, Ernest McMurchie 1893 births 1969 deaths 20th-century Scottish medical doctors Scottish bacteriologists Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Medical doctors from Glasgow People educated at Hutchesons' Grammar School Alumni of the University of Glasgow Academics of the University of Glasgow Academics of Durham University Pollokshields