George Hector Percival

Prof George Hector Percival FRSE FRCPE (1902–1983) was a British dermatologist, academic author and president of the British Association of Dermatologists.

Life

He was born in Kirkcaldy in Fife the son of E J Percival.

Percival was educated at George Watson's College in Edinburgh. He then studied Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, graduating MB ChB

He joined the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary's skin department in 1923,[1] rising to become Consultant-in-Charge (Physician) in 1936. From 1946 he was the Grant Professor of Dermatology at the University of Edinburgh.[2]

He became an eminent dermatologist,[3] a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and president of the British Association of Dermatologists in 1961–62.[2] In 1928 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were George Barger, David Murray Lyon, Arthur Logan Turner and James Lorrain Smith. He resigned from the Society in 1933.[4]

His research contributions included work on correlating skin diseases with calcium metabolism and parathyroid hormone, and vascular chemical mediators involved in cutaneous inflammation.[5]

He died in Edinburgh on 3 April 1983.

Publications
  • An Introduction to Dermatology (1967) included as an author from the 9th Edition[6]
  • Atlas of Histopathology of the Skin (1962)[7]
  • An Atlas of Regional Dermatology[8]

Family

In 1937 he married Kathleen Dawson.

References
  1. British Association of Dermatologists. "A Biographical History of British Dermatology: A New Generation". Retrieved 25 July 2015.
  2. Hunter, J.A.A. (1983). "Obituary: Professor Emeritus George Hector Percival,Ph.D., MD, FRCP (Edin.), DPH". British Journal of Dermatology. 109 (6): 717–719. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2133.1983.tb00553.x. PMID 6360196. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
  3. Hunter, JA (December 1983). "Professor Emeritus George Hector Percival". The British Journal of Dermatology. 109 (6): 717–9. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2133.1983.tb00553.x. PMID 6360196.
  4. 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.
  5. British Association of Dermatologists. "A Biographical History of British Dermatology: Turn of the Century". Retrieved 25 July 2015.
  6. Walker, N.; Percival, G.H. (1932). An Introduction to Dermatology (9th ed.). Edinburgh: Green. p. 382.
  7. Percival, G.H.; Drennan, A.M.; Dodds, T.C. (1947). Atlas of histopathology of the skin. Edinburgh: Livingstone. p. 494.
  8. Percival, G.H.; Dodds, T.C. (1955). An Atlas of Regional Dematology. London: E. and S. Livingstone. p. 264.
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