William Smith Greenfield

William Smith Greenfield FRSE FRCPE LLD (1846-1919) was a British anatomist.

In 1884, he was living at 7 Heriot Row, a magnificent Georgian terraced townhouse in Edinburgh's Second New Town.

His proposers were Sir William Turner, James Cossar Ewart, Robert Gray and Peter Guthrie Tait.

[3][4] He retired to Elie in Fife in 1912, being succeeded by Prof James Lorrain Smith.

Deeply evangelical, one of his sons became a minister, and two of his daughters became Christian missionaries in India.

Portrait. Credit: Wellcome Library
7 Heriot Row, Edinburgh
1884 sketched portrait by W.B. Hole. Credit: Wellcome Library