James Jamieson (dentist)
Dr James Dalgleish Hamilton Jamieson FRSE FDSE (1875-1966) was a Scottish dentist and author.
Life
He was born at 52 Rankeillor Street[1], a ground floor and basement flat in Edinburgh’s South Side, the son of James Jamieson, a surgeon, on 10 September 1875. He was educated at George Watsons College. He then studied Dentistry at Edinburgh University graduating in 1899.
He practiced as a dental surgeon from 52 George Square in Edinburgh’s South Side 1899 to 1955, and also seemed to have lived at the same address.[2] The building was demolished by Edinburgh University in the 1960s. The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1920. From 1930 until 1951 he lectured in Dental Disorders at Edinburgh University.
In 1938 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Francis Albert Eley Crew, Charles Henry O’Donoghue, Edwin Bramwell, and John Walton. [3]
He died at New Malden in Surrey on 21 September 1966 aged 91.
Publications
- Aids to Operative Dentistry (1923)
- Ham and jam: Days, doings, diversions, drawings and doggerel ditties of a dentist (1960)
References
- ↑ Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1875-6
- ↑ Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1911-12
- ↑ 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.