Morag Crichton Timbury

{{short description|Scottish biologist, bacteriologist and virologist}}

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Morag Crichton Timbury ({{nee}} McCulloch; 29 September 1930 – 28 April 2018) was a Scottish medical virologist,{{cite book|last1=Brock|first1=Mario|last2=Mayer|first2=Heinz-Michael|last3=Weigel|first3=Klaus|title=The Artificial disc|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jh5XAAAAMAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Springer-Verlag|isbn=978-0-387-51857-2|page=415}} bacteriologist and science writer.{{Cite book|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-37738|title=Timbury, Morag Crichton|work=Who's who 2018|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2018|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U37738 |isbn=978-0-19-954088-4 }}

Early life and education

Morag Crichton McCulloch was born on 29 September 1930. Her parents were Dr Esther Sinclair McCulloch (née Hood) and William McCulloch. She attended St Bride's High School in East Kilbride before studying medicine at University of Glasgow. She graduated from the university with a MB ChB in 1953 and MD in 1960, and received her PhD in 1976.

Career

After graduation, she worked from 1960 to 1963 at the Regional Virtus Laboratory, in Ruchill Hospital, Glasgow as the Sir Maurice Bloch Research Fellow in Virology.{{Cite web|url=http://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/chair-and-lectureship/?id=677|title=University of Glasgow : Story : Lectureships: Maurice Bloch Lectureship|website=www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk|access-date=5 January 2018}} She was a lecturer (1963–1965) and senior lecturer (1965–1976) in bacteriology at the University of Glasgow, and subsequently a Reader in virology (1976–78).[https://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH27584&type=P&o= Morag Timbury biodata], universitystory.gla.ac.uk; accessed 27 October 2018. She went on to become Professor of Bacteriology and William Teacher Lecturer (1978–88) at the university, and head of the Department of Bacteriology at Glasgow Royal Infirmary. In 1988, Timbury was appointed director of the Central Public Health Laboratory of the Public Health Laboratory Service, and she held that position until 1995.

She was a visiting associate professor at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, United States (1975), visiting Mayne Guest Professor at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia (1990) and Honorary Visiting Professor of Virology at Imperial College School of Medicine (1997–99).

In 1998, Timbury was a committee member on the Independent Review Group for the Review of Food-related Scientific Services in Scotland. The resulting report of the Group, The Timbury Report, was named for her.{{Cite web|url=http://food.gov.uk/science/research/devolvedadmins/scotlandresearch/scotlandresearch/ScotlandProjectList/s01005/|title=Food Standards Agency - National Food Surveillance System for Scotland|last=Agency|first=Food Standards|website=webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk|language=en-gb|access-date=5 January 2018|url-status=bot: unknown|archiveurl=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20131206123518/http://food.gov.uk/science/research/devolvedadmins/scotlandresearch/scotlandresearch/ScotlandProjectList/s01005/|archivedate=6 December 2013}}

Selected works

She has authored or co-authored many articles and books including the following:

[https://www.amazon.co.uk/Notes-Medical-Microbiology-Morag-Timbury/dp/0443071640 Notes on Medical Microbiology] by Morag C. Timbury, A. Christine McCartney, Bishan Thakker, and Katherine N. Ward (authors); August 2002 ({{ISBN|0443071640}})
Medical Virology, February 1991 ({{ISBN|0-443-04148-2}})
Notes on Medical Bacteriology (co-author: J. Douglas Sleigh) January 1981 ({{ISBN|0-443-02264-X}}) January 1986 ({{ISBN|0-04-430332-7}})
Essentials of Immunology and Microbiology (co-author: Robert G. White) January 1973 ({{ISBN|0-273-00171-X}}/{{ISBN|0-397-58127-0}})

Awards and honours

Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, 1974
Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists, 1976
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1979
Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, 1994{{Cite news|url=https://www.rse.org.uk/fellow/morag-timbury/|title=Professor Morag Crichton Timbury FRSE - The Royal Society of Edinburgh|work=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|access-date=2018-01-05|language=en-GB}}

Personal life

She was married to Professor Gerald Charles Timbury (d.1985), Dean of post-graduate medicine at the University of Glasgow, consultant psychiatrist, and Physician Superintendent at Gartnavel Royal Hospital, Glasgow from 1965 to 1980.{{Cite web|url=http://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH2537&type=P|title=University of Glasgow :: Story :: Biography of Gerald Timbury|website=www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk|access-date=2018-01-05}} Together they had one daughter, Judith. Timbury died in Edinburgh on 28 April 2018.{{cite web|url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/announcements/deaths/deaths/16201290.Morag_Timbury/|title=Morag Timbury|website=HeraldScotland|accessdate=23 May 2018}}