John Fraser (surgeon)

Prof Sir John Fraser FRSE LLD MID KCVO MC (d.1947) was the Principal of the University of Edinburgh from 1944 to 1947. He was Regius Professor of Clinical Surgery at Edinburgh University from 1925 to 1944.

He was the first surgeon in Britain to ligate an uninfected ductus in 1940.[1]

Life

He was born in Tain, Rosshire and attended Tain Academy. He then studied Medicine at Edinburgh University, graduating MB ChB in 1907.[2]

He had an extremely distinguished record during the First World War during which he served as the Regimental Medical Officer. He received the Military Cross and was Mentioned in Dispatches.

In 1928 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Arthur Logan Turner, Harold Stiles, Arthur Robinson, James Hartley Ashworth and Sir James Arthur Ewing.[3]

He was knighted a Knight Commander of the Victorian Order (KCVO) in 1937 and made a Baronet in 1943.

He died on 1 December 1947.

Recognition

Fraser House (now renamed Holland House) and Fraser Court at Pollock Halls of Residence were named after him.

Preceded by
Thomas Henry Holland		 Principals of Edinburgh University
1944–1948 		Succeeded by
Edward Victor Appleton

References

  1. ↑ Catford, E.F. (1984). The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press. p. 97.
  2. ↑ BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF FORMER FELLOWS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH 1783 – 2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.
  3. ↑ BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF FORMER FELLOWS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH 1783 – 2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.


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