Walter Mercer

Sir Walter Mercer KBE FRSE FRCSEd FRCPE LLD (19 March 1890 – 23 February 1971) was a Scottish orthopaedic surgeon.

[1] He was educated at George Watson's College, going on to study medicine at the University of Edinburgh from 1907 to 1912, graduating with an MB ChB.

He was invalided back to Britain and then served in the Bangour Military Hospital where he began to take an interest in orthopaedics.

He concurrently took on the role of thoracic surgeon at the South Eastern Counties of Scotland Sanatorium at East Fortune.

The Sir Walter Mercer medal is awarded annually to the highest scoring candidate in the Royal College Intercollegiate Specialty Examination in Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery at the first attempt.

Walter Mercer's name carved on the preserved doctors table at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary
Memorial plaque to Sir Walter Mercer, Warriston Crematorium
The grave of Sir Walter Mercer, Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh