James Ormiston Affleck

James Ormiston Affleck
Affleck's large townhouse at 38 Heriot Row, Edinburgh

Sir James Ormiston Affleck FRSE LLD (1840-1922) was a Scottish physician and medical author.

Life

The grave of James Ormiston Affleck, Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh

He was born in Edinburgh in 1840, but not from a medical family. He studied Medicine at Edinburgh University and graduated MB ChB in 1867. He gained his doctorate in 1869 and began practicing in the Stockbridge area of the city, operating from 12 Claremont Place.[1] He also took on the role of public vaccinator at the New Town Dispensary.[2]

Sir Douglas Maclagan grew aware of his talents and chose Affleck as his assistant both in the university and at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, in 1877 becoming the official Assistant Physician. He was promoted to official Physician to the infirmary in 1885. He retired from the infirmary in 1900 and took on the role of Consulting Physician for the City Fever Hospital, and also worked at the Longmore Hospital for Incurables.[3]

In 1896 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir Douglas Maclagan, Sir William Turner, Alexander Crum Brown and Sir Thomas Richard Fraser. In 1905 he served as President of the Edinburgh Medico-Chirurgical Society. [4]

In later life he lived at 38 Heriot Row, an impressive Georgian townhouse in Edinburgh’s New Town.[5] Edinburgh University gave him a further honorary doctorate (LLD) in 1908. He was knighted at Holyrood Palace in 1911 by King George V for his services to medicine.

He died at home on 24 September 1922 and is buried with his wife Agnes in the first north extension of Dean Cemetery in western Edinburgh.

Family

His son, also James Ormiston Affleck, was educated at Edinburgh Academy and later served as a Major in the Royal Engineers during the First World War.[6]

Publications

References

  1. ↑ Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1870-71
  2. ↑ https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/proceedings-of-the-royal-society-of-edinburgh/article/sir-james-ormiston-affleck/16D1CC5EC6A0A98B8B0B66B37F195DEA
  3. ↑ http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/ark:/99166/w6dd36nt
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1911-12
  6. ↑ http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C1089277
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