Keith Dyce

Prof Keith Macfarlane Dyce MRCVS (1926–2014) was a 20th-century British veterinarian who served as Dean of the Dick Vet School from 1980 to 1984. He was an expert on Dog anatomy.

He was born in Edinburgh on 24 June 1926. He studied Science at Edinburgh University then trained as a vet at the Dick Vet School in Edinburgh graduating BSc in 1947. He then lectured in the anatomy department at the Royal Veterinary College in London gaining a doctorate (DVMS) in 1958.

In the academic year 1965/66 he was visiting Professor of Dog Anatomy at Cornell University in America. In 1967 he became Professor of Veterinary Anatomy at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. In 1974 he returned to Edinburgh as Professor of Anatomy at his alma mater the Dick Vet, and was additionally created Dean of Faculty in 1980 in succession to Prof Ian Beattie.

He lived his final years at 4/4 St Vincent Place in Stockbridge, Edinburgh. The property is a modern flat with a Georgian style exterior to blend with the surrounding New Town.

He retired in 1984 and died at St Columba's Hospice on 12 January 2014. He was cremated at Warriston Crematorium.

• Textbook of Veterinary Anatomy - at least 4 editions-(with Wolfgang Sack and C. J. G. Wensing)
• Essentials of Bovine Anatomy (1971- with Wensing)

Dyce was one of twenty "shadow portraits" created in the Summerhall building of the college, depicting former Principals. The portraits are now in the Easter Bush buildings.

He was married with one son.