John Halliday Croom

Sir John Halliday Croom FRSE PRCPE PRCSE (15 January 1847 – 27 September 1923) was a Scottish surgeon and medical author.

He was born in the manse at Sanquhar in south-west Scotland on 15 January 1847, the son of Janet (née Halliday) and Rev.

[9] He was knighted for services to medicine in the 1902 Coronation Honours,[11] receiving the accolade from King Edward VII at Buckingham Palace on 24 October that year.

The grave lies towards the western end of the main east-west path, on its south side.

His portrait, painted by Robert Henry Alison Ross c.1920, hangs in the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

David's son, named Sir John Halliday Croom, in his grandfather's honour was born in Edinburgh on 2 July 1909.

[15] His eldest daughter had married Dr A J Beattie but happily also took on Croom’s domestic duties, so it was a double blow when she also died, in 1913.