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Biography
Prof David Eric Cameron Mekie FRSE OBE (1902–1989) was a Scottish surgeon and Keeper of the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh from 1955 to 1974.
Life
He is thought to be born in Edinburgh the son of David Mekie, a local builder living at Waverley Park on Spring Gardens just east of Holyrood Palace.
From 1935 to 1955 he was Professor of Surgery at the University of Singapore. He returned to Edinburgh to be Director of Post Graduate Medicine at Edinburgh University, also taking over the running of the Surgical Museum at the same time. He introduced the first policy of selective display within the museum.
In 1962 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir William Wallace, George Montgomery, James Kirkwood Slater and Douglas Guthrie.
He died in November 1989.