Harvey Pirie

Dr James Hunter Harvey Pirie FRSE FRCPE (10 December 1878[1] – 27 September 1965[2]) was a 20th-century British medical doctor, philatelist, orchid-grower and bacteriologist.

[6] From 1902 until 1904 he participated in the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition on the ex-whaling ship Scotia, under William Speirs Bruce, Pirie acting as both surgeon and geologist.

He went on to postgraduate studies at the University of Edinburgh and was awarded his doctorate (MD) in 1907 after producing his thesis - 'On the smaller polygonal cells of the grey matter of the spinal cord'.

His proposers were Daniel John Cunningham, Alexander Bruce, Henry Harvey Littlejohn, and David Waterston.

He was Editor of the South African Philatelist for thirty-six years, and wrote important works on the stamps of Swaziland and the New Republic.