David Murray Lyon

David Malcolm Murray Lyon FRSE DPH (1888-1956) was an English physician and medical author.

[1] He was educated at George Watson's College then studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, graduating MB ChB in 1910.

[2] In the First World War he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps attached to the Cavalry Field Ambulance and saw action in both Rouen and Mons.

After the war he became Assistant physician at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary under Jonathan Meakins, jointly working on insulin research, and being joined by Charles George Lambie from 1922.

[9] He was the cousin of Dr Ranald Malcolm Murray-Lyon (1904-1969), a senior physician at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.