James Galloway (physician)

Born in Calcutta in India in 1862, the son of James Galloway, a Scottish businessman,[1] and Jane Hermina (née de Villeneuve), he was educated at the Chanonry School in Aberdeen and the University of Aberdeen, where he graduated MA in 1883 with honours in Natural Science.

He was Consulting Physician for Skin Diseases to the Metropolitan Asylums Board and was president of the Section of Dermatology at the Birmingham Meeting of the British Medical Association in 1911.

He contributed to Quain’s Dictionary and Allbutt’s System of Medicine, delivered the Morton Lecture before the Royal College of Surgeons in 1893, edited the British Journal of Dermatology from 1896 to 1904[1] and The British Journal of Dermatology and Syphilis from January 1896 to December 1904.

He was largely responsible for organising the Central Medical War Committee which settled the arrangements for apportioning doctors between civilian and military requirements.

[2] Sir James Galloway died after a short illness on 18 October 1922 and was buried in Brookwood Cemetery.