David Wilkie (surgeon)

Sir David Percival Dalbreck Wilkie (1882–1938) was among the first of the new breed of professors of surgery appointed at a relatively young age to develop surgical research and undergraduate teaching. At the University of Edinburgh, he established a surgical research laboratory from which was to emerge a cohort of young surgical researchers destined to become the largest dynasty of surgical professors yet seen in the British Isles. He is widely regarded as the father of British academic surgery.

He lived at 56 Manor Place in Edinburgh's West End.

He died on 28 August 1938 and is buried on a prominent corner of the northern Victorian extension to Dean Cemetery in western Edinburgh.