Biography:George Macdonald Urquhart
Prof George Macdonald Urquhart FRSE FRCVS (1925–1997) was a 20th-century Scottish veterinarian. He was President of the World Association for the Advancement of Veterinary Parasitology from 1985 to 1989.
Life
He was born in Glasgow on 29 May 1925, the son of a former Easter Ross farmer. He was educated at Allan Glen's School. In 1942 he entered the Glasgow Veterinary College. Graduating BVMS in 1947 he then worked for two years with the Ministry of Agriculture.[1]
He began lecturing at Glasgow University (alongside Prof William Mulligan) in 1949.[1] He received his first doctorate (PhD) in 1955 for his work on liver flukes. From 1956 to 1959 he worked in Kabete in Kenya as a helminthologist.[2] He returned to Glasgow University as a researcher in 1960. He was responsible for developing the Dictol vaccine which combats bronchitis in cattle.[1]
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1990. His proposers were Ronald J. Roberts, William Weipers, Maxwell Murray and N. G. Wright.[3]
He died on 11 January 1997.[4]
Publications
- Veterinary Parasitology. Longman Scientific and Technical. 1987. ISBN 9780582026995. OCLC 824632303.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Biography of George Urquhart". 28 September 2015. https://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH2592&type=P. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
- ↑ Kenya Gazette July 1966
- ↑ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002. The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X. https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf.
- ↑ "George Macdonald Urquhart". The Herald. 22 January 1997. https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12083263.george-macdonald-urquhart/. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
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