Died 1936 | ||
David Middleton Greig FRSE FRCSE LLD TD (1864-1936) was a Scottish surgeon. Greig cephalopolysyndactyly syndrome (first described in 1926) is named after him. He donated 250 skulls to Surgeons' Hall in Edinburgh, now called the Greig Collection.
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Life
He was born at 140 Nethergate in Dundee in 1864 to Dr David Greig a surgeon and part of a long line of medical practitioners. He first studied Medicine at St Andrews University but then moved to Edinburgh University where he graduated MB ChB in 1885.
After a period working with his father as a GP he moved to be a doctor at the Royal Asylum in Perth. From here he moved to the Baldovan Institute for Imbecile Children near Dundee. After three years serving as a military surgeon in India he returned to Scotland to take a post at Dundee Royal Infirmary. In 1899, at the onset of the Boer War he served under General Redvers Buller in Natal. He returned to Dundee in 1902 at the end of the war.
In 1911 he was living at 25 South Tay Street in Dundee, a three storey and basement Georgian terraced townhouse.
In later life (1921) he became the formal Curator of the Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. The museum is now open to the public.
In 1925 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Anderson Gray McKendrick, James Hartley Ashworth, Arthur Robinson and Sir Harold Stiles.
He died in Edinburgh on 4 May 1936.