Andrew Davidson (knight)

{{Short description|Academic, footballer, knight, public health official, royal physician and soldier}}

{{About|the academic, footballer, knight, public health official, royal physician and soldier||Andrew Davidson (disambiguation){{!}}Andrew Davidson}}

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| office = Chief Medical Officer for Scotland

| term_start = 1941

| term_end = 1954

| predecessor = J. M. Mackintosh

| successor = Kenneth Cowan

| honorific_prefix = Sir

| name = Andrew Davidson

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1892|3|12|df=y}}

| birth_place = Dalmuir

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| alma_mater = {{unbulleted list |Allan Glen's School |University of Glasgow}}

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| spouse = Helen Edith Calder (m. 1922)

| children = two sons

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| father = Charles Davidson

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{{Infobox football biography

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|position = Left-half

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|clubs1 = Rutherglen Glencairn

|years2 = 1913–1914

|clubs2 = Celtic

|caps2 = 5

|goals2 = 0

|years3 = 1913

|clubs3 = → Vale of Atholl (loan)

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|years4= 1914

|clubs4 = → Wishaw Thistle (loan)

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|years5= 1914–1916

|clubs5 = St Mirren

|caps5 = 48

|goals5 = 1

|years6= 1916–1917

|clubs6 = South Shields

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|years7= 1919–1920

|clubs7 = Glasgow University

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|branch = British Army

|branch_label = Service

|serviceyears = 1916–1919

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|unit = Royal Army Medical Corps

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Sir Andrew Davidson (12 March 1892 –13 March 1962) was an academic, footballer,{{cite magazine|title=A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players|author=John Litster|magazine=Scottish Football Historian magazine|date=October 2012}} public health official, royal physician and soldier. He was knighted in 1946.{{r|UG}}[https://www.thecelticwiki.com/players/all-time-a-to-z-of-celtic-players/d/davidson-andrew/ Obituary], The British Medical Journal, 14 March 1962 (scan via The Celtic Wiki)

There are five photographic portraits by Walter Stoneman in the National Portrait Gallery.{{r|NPG}}