George Hector Percival FRSE FRCPE (1902–1983) was a British dermatologist, academic author and president of the British Association of Dermatologists.
Percival was educated at George Watson's College in Edinburgh.
He then studied Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, graduating MB ChB He joined the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary's skin department in 1923,[1] rising to become Consultant-in-Charge (Physician) in 1936.
His proposers were George Barger, David Murray Lyon, Arthur Logan Turner and James Lorrain Smith.
[5][6] His research contributions included work on correlating skin diseases with calcium metabolism and parathyroid hormone, and vascular chemical mediators involved in cutaneous inflammation.