A. A. Scot Skirving

His family had owned Campton Farm in the parish of Drem near Haddington in East Lothian but he was born at Nether Quarry Holes off Easter Road in Leith on 29 June 1868.

He acted as a junior under Professor John Chiene at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary then undertook two years further studies in Paris and Berlin.

[3] He appears to have lived with his parents at 29 Drummond Place in Edinburgh's New Town, possibly purchased by his brother who was making his fame in Australia.

[5] In the First World War he served as a major in the Royal Army Medical Corps in France and in Scotland at Bangour Hospital.

His proposers were James Young Simpson, Lord Theodore Salvesen, Arthur Robertson Cushny, and Alexander Lauder.