Sir David Percival Dalbreck Wilkie, OBE, FRSE (5 November 1882 – 28 August 1938), known to friends and colleagues as DPD, was among the first of the new breed of professors of surgery appointed at a relatively young age to develop surgical research and undergraduate teaching.

[7] Following the war, in 1924 he was appointed Professor of Systematic Surgery at Edinburgh University, in place of Prof Alexis Thomson, and held this post until death.

In 1925, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE):[7] his proposers were James Lorrain Smith, Arthur Robertson Cushny, George Barger, and David Murray Lyon.

They lived at 56 Manor Place in Edinburgh's West End (previously the home of Henry Cotterill).

[3] Ironically, he died of stomach cancer[3] whilst on a trip to London on 28 August 1938, aged only 55, and is buried on a prominent corner of the northern Victorian extension to Dean Cemetery in western Edinburgh.