George Ritchie Gilruth

Dr George Ritchie Gilruth FRSE LRCP LRCSE (1842-1921) was a Scottish surgeon and author.

Life

He was born on 24 October 1842 the son of John Gilruth a writing master in Leith just north of Edinburgh and living at 28 Constitution Street. His mother was Eliza Ritchie.[1] He is presumed to have qualified as a doctor at Edinburgh University. He qualified as a surgeon in 1865.

In 1877 he was living at 9 Union Street in Edinburgh and is noted as a qualified surgeon. He was a Demonstrator in Anatomy at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. In 1880 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were William Ferguson, Andrew Douglas Maclagan, Patrick Heron Watson and Thomas Alexander Goldie Balfour.[2]

In June 1888 he is noted as an Acting Surgeon in the Edinburgh City Artillery Volunteer Corps.[3] He was then living at 48 Nothumberland Street.[4]

In 1911 he is noted as living at 53 Northumberland Street in Edinburgh's Second New Town.[5]

He later worked as Resident Surgeon at Consett Infirmary in the north of England.

He died at Allanton near Bridge of Allan, Stirlingshire on 15 August 1921.

References

  1. ↑ https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQC6-52B
  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. ↑ The London Gazette 19 June 1888
  4. ↑ Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1888-9
  5. ↑ Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1911-12
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