David Hepburn
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David Hepburn CMG FRSE (1859-1931) was a Scottish physician and anatomist. He served as president of the Anatomical Society 1916 to 1918.
Life
He was born in Milnathort on 30 October 1858, the son of John Hepburn, a local vet, and Elizabeth Dunn.Register-Book of Births, Parish Orwell, County Kinross-shire He attended Brand's School in the town. He studied anatomy at the University of Edinburgh (possibly intending to be a vet like his father, as the courses were parallel) but moved specifically to human anatomy and medicine, graduating around 1880. In 1885 he became a Senior Demonstrator in the Professor William Turner's anatomy class: dissecting bodies while Turner spoke, a standard methodology for the time.
In 1890 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Andrew Douglas Maclagan, Sir William Turner, Alexander Crum Brown and John Chiene.{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf|access-date=24 October 2016|archive-date=24 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130124115814/http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf|url-status=dead}}
He continued as Senior Demonstrator at the University of Edinburgh until 1903 when he received his own professorship at the University of Cardiff. His final years in Edinburgh were spent at 11 Glenorchy Terrace in the south side of the city.Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1900-01
During the First World War he was Surgeon-Colonel with the 3rd Western General Hospital in Cardiff.
He died on 9 March 1931.
Family
He was married to Mary Carson, granddaughter of Aglionby Ross Carson.
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Category:Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Category:Academics of the University of Edinburgh
Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Category:19th-century Scottish medical doctors
Category:20th-century Scottish medical doctors
Category:Presidents of the Anatomical Society
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