Prof George Henry Edington FRSE FRCS DL JP TD (1870-1943) was a Scottish surgeon, anatomist and medical author who served as President of both the Glasgow Medico-Chirurgical Society and the Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow 1928 to 1940.
He was educated at Kelvinside Academy then studied Medicine at first King's College, London then Glasgow University, graduating in 1891 and receiving his doctorate (MD) in 1895.
[3] He took an active interest in soldiering and had joined the Volunteer Medical Staff Corps in 1901, rising to the rank of captain in 1905.
[2] He suffered a heart attack during a fishing trip and died at the Western Infirmary in Glasgow on 24 September 1943.
[4] He never married and lived with his two sisters at 20 Woodside Place, a Victorian terraced house just north of Glasgow city centre.