Harvey Pirie

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James Hunter Harvey Pirie
Born10 December 1878
Died27 September 1965 (1965-09-28) (aged 86)
NationalityScottish

Dr James Hunter Harvey Pirie

Joseph Lister and the Pirie Peninsula is named after him. Cape Mabel
was named after his wife. In authorship he is known as J. H. H. Pirie.

Pirie (right) with fellow naturalists aboard the Scotia during the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition

Life

Rear view of a three-masted sailing ship with all sails furled, lying in an ice-covered sea.
Scotia, anchored at Laurie Island in 1903

He was born in Glasgow the son of Dr John Pirie of 26 Elmbank Crescent.[3]

Pirie was commissioned into the

Glasgow University graduating MB ChB in 1902.[6] From 1902 until 1904 he participated in the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition on the ex-whaling ship Scotia, under William Speirs Bruce, Pirie acting as both surgeon and geologist. This involved spending the majority of 1903 on a makeshift base on the South Orkney Islands. He went on to postgraduate studies at the University of Edinburgh and was awarded his doctorate (MD) in 1907 after producing his thesis - 'On the smaller polygonal cells of the grey matter of the spinal cord'.[7]

In 1908 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Daniel John Cunningham, Alexander Bruce, Henry Harvey Littlejohn, and David Waterston.[8]

He later worked in a private medical practice in Scotland. In 1913, he joined the

South African Institute for Medical Research in Johannesburg
from 1926 till 1941.

Philately

Pirie was a noted

Roll of Distinguished Philatelists of South Africa.[9]

Publications

  • The Voyage of the Scotia, being a record of a voyage of exploration in the Antarctic Seas by
    Robert Neal Rudmose-Brown
    , C. Hurst London (1906)
  • Medical Jurisprudence (1911)

See also

References and sources

References
  1. ^ Background notes on The Roll of Distinguished Philatelists September 2011, Roll of Distinguished Philatelists Trust, London, 2011. Archived here.
  2. ^ a b c "Dr. J.H. Harvey Pirie" in The London Philatelist, Vol. 74, No. 876, December 1965, p. 223.
  3. ^ Glasgow Post Office Directory 1878
  4. ^ "No. 27177". The London Gazette. 27 March 1900. p. 2040.
  5. ^ Hart′s Army list, 1901
  6. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X
    .
  7. hdl:1842/19238. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help
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  8. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X
    .
  9. ^ RDPSA, Philatelic Federation of South Africa, 2013. Retrieved 9 April 2013. Archived here.
Sources
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