Kirk Duncanson

Dr John Janet Kirk Duncanson (usually referred to as J J Kirk Duncanson) FRSE FRCPE (1846–1913) was a Scottish surgeon and botanist, running the Ear, Nose and Throat section of the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.

He was a noted amateur botanist which led to his being made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Kirk was educated at Dollar Academy and then the Edinburgh Institution (now known as Stewart's Melville College), originally training to be an engineer.

On graduating, again at Ferrier's encouragement he went to Heidelberg for further studies, and from there to Vienna where he began to specialise in the ear.

[4] In 1873 Duncanson was elected a member of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh and served as president in 1902.