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Professor Alexander Murray Drennan FRSE FRCPE (4 January 1884 – 29 February 1984) was a Scottish pathologist. In the First World War he promoted the widespread use of Edinburgh University Solution (sold under the brand name of Eusol).[1] A keen yachtsman, he owned two yachts: Kestrel and Marishka.[2] LifeHe was born at 11.50pm on 4 January 1884 in Glasgow, the son of Margaret (née Murray) and Alexander Drennan (d.1906) of 16 Rocklea Terrace in Hillhead.[3] His family were of Irish descent. His mother died during or shortly after his birth. The family moved to a villa (Dunalwyn) in Helensburgh while he was young and he was educated at Larchfield Academy and then back to Glasgow to attend Kelvinside Academy. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh graduating MB ChB in 1906, and held a place in the Residency of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. On 3 April 1909 he married Marion Galbraith.{{Citation needed|date=July 2018}} In 1914 he received a professorship at Otago University in New Zealand but this was immediately disrupted by the onset of the First World War. He was conscripted in 1915 and joined the Royal Army Medical Corps as an official pathologist at the general military hospital at Mudros serving the Dardanelles Campaign. He was later moved to Alexandria in Egypt to serve the Mediterranean and Egyptian Expeditionary Force. He did not serve for the entire war and seems to have returned to New Zealand late in 1917 to resume his professorship. In 1924 Brennan was awarded the degree Doctor of Medicine by the University of Otago for his thesis, [https://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/22162 Studies on goitre in New Zealand].[4] He stayed in New Zealand until 1929 then took on a role as Professor at Queens University, Belfast. He only stayed there two years, then returned to the University of Edinburgh as Professor of Pathology.[2] In 1932 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, Thomas Jones Mackie, William Alexander Bain and Philip Eggleton.[5] He retired in 1954. He died in Stirling on 29 February 1984 a few weeks after his 100th birthday. Publications
FamilyHis son Alexander James Murray Drennan also trained as a doctor and served as a lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps in the Second World War.[6] References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.lhsa.lib.ed.ac.uk/collections/GD9/gd9_tlfa.htm |title=Alexander Murray Drennan medical practitioner collection summary |website=Lhsa.lib.ed.ac.uk |date= |accessdate=2017-03-30}} {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Drennan, Alexander Murray}}2. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.lhsa.lib.ed.ac.uk/collections/GD9/GD9.pdf |format=PDF |title=PROFESSOR ALEXANDER MURRAY DRENNAN |website=Lhsa.lib.ed.ac.uk |accessdate=2017-03-30}} 3. ^Glasgow Post Office Directory 1884-5 4. ^{{Cite journal|last=A.M.|first=Drennan,|date=1924|title=Studies on goitre in New Zealand|url=http://hdl.handle.net/1842/22162|language=en}} 5. ^{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0 902 198 84 X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf}} 6. ^London Gazette 29 July 1941 9 : 1884 births|1984 deaths|People from Glasgow|Alumni of the University of Edinburgh|Academics of the University of Edinburgh|Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh|University of New Zealand faculty|British centenarians|British pathologists |
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