Norman Dott
Norman McOmish Dott,
Life
Norman Dott was born in
In 1932 he began lecturing at the University of Edinburgh, and in 1947 received the Professorship in Neuro-Surgery (one of the first in the world). Meanwhile, he also worked in Royal Hospital for Sick Children, and conducted private brain surgery from a premises in the New Town.
In 1938 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Edwin Bramwell, Arthur Logan Turner, Anderson Gray McKendrick, and William Thomas Ritchie.[5]
During the
In 1962 he was made a Freeman of the City of Edinburgh. The University of Edinburgh awarded him an honorary doctorate (MD) in 1969. The Royal College of Surgeons of Canada made him an Honorary Fellow in 1973.
He retired in 1963, his chair being filled by Professor Francis Gillingham. He died in Edinburgh on 10 December 1973.
There’s a ward at The Walton Centre, Liverpool dedicated to his memory. Portraits of Dott are held at the
Family
He married Margaret ("Peggy") Robertson in 1932. They had a daughter named Jean.
Family background
The Dott family - formerly D'Ott or possibly De Ott - were of
In 1876 the young Peter Dott joined his father in the family business - later Aitken Dott & Sons - now removed to larger premises at Castle Street. Although she had been born at Birkenhead on Merseyside, Rebecca Dott's family were Ulster Scots. Having had a short-lived marriage in the 1880s, she had been a widow for several years when she married Peter Dott on 2 April 1894, at which time they settled in Colinton on the outskirts of Edinburgh.[6]
See also
References
- PMID 4586072.
- ^ Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1897-8
- ^ a b "Lothian Health Services Archive: The Life of Norman Dott examined". lhsa.blogspot.co.uk. 16 November 2012. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
- ^ Dott, N. M. (1922). "Pituitary body in its relation to the skeleton".
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- ISBN 978-0080379753.
Further reading and external links
- Norman M. Dott, master of hypothalamic craniopharyngioma surgery: the decisive mentoring of Harvey Cushing and Percival Bailey at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
- Norman Dott, Gerard Guiot, and Jules Hardy: key players in the resurrection and preservation of transsphenoidal surgery
- Portrait of Dott (National Galleries of Scotland)
- A pituitary tumour from 1927 (clinical case involving Dott and later society photographer Grace Alison)