1886 – 31 January 1932
Educated Glasgow High School and University of Glasgow MB ChB (1909), MD (1913).
Deputy Medical Officer of Health, Aberdeen and Lecturer (1914), then Reader (1923) in Public Health, University of Aberdeen.
Captain in RAMC (TF), commanding the University Officers’ Training Corps for three years, followed by commanding a Mobile Hygiene Field Laboratory in France (1918).
On the retirement of Matthew Hay in 1923, he became Head of the Public Health Department in Aberdeen. He developed community immunisation for diphthera and scarlet fever. He promoted unification of health services, with cooperation between public health, Poor Law, school health, Board of Control, university departments general practitioners and Aberdeen Corportation, an example to the rest of Britain. His work also focused on maternal mortality.
Late in 1928, he became Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health for Scotland, in succession to Sir Leslie Mackenzie.
He died suddenly in 1932.
