Professor Richard Lorraine de Chasteney Holbourne Saunders FRSE FRMS (29 May 1908–21 December 1995) was a 20th century South African anatomist. He received international acclaim for his x-ray and electron microscopy investigations of neurological conditions.[1]
Life
Saunders was born on 29 May 1908 in Grahamstown, South Africa, the son of Lucy Anderson (née Meiklejohn) and Col Frederick Anastasius Saunders, an army surgeon.[2] He studied medicine at Rhodes University then the University of Edinburgh, graduating with an MB ChB in 1932, In 1940 he received his doctorate (MD) with a dissertation on spina bifida.
He lectured in anatomy at the University of Edinburgh from 1933 to 1937. In 1937 he emigrated to Canada to take up a post as associate professor of Anatomy at Dalhousie University being appointed by Prof H. G. Grant. He became Assistant Professor in 1942 and full Professor in 1948.[3]
In 1946 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Donald Mainland, James Couper Brash, William Frederick Harvey, and William Ogilvy Kermack.[4]
He died on 21 December 1995 in West Jeddore, Nova Scotia, Canada. His body was returned to Scotland for burial at Ardchattan Kirk near Oban.[1]
Family
He married Dr Sarah Cameron, and together they had a son, Alistair Corstan de Cusance Maxwell Saunders.
References
- 1 2 "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 May 2018. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ↑ "Dr Richard Lorraine de Chasteney Holbourne Saunders (1908-1995) - Find A Grave Memorial". Find a Grave.
- ↑ Lives of Dalhousie University 1925-1980, P. Waite
- ↑ 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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 18 May 2018.