MEDICAL PROFESSOR

Taranaki Daily News, 20 February 1935, Page 2

MEDICAL PROFESSOR

DR. D. COLQUHOUN’S DEATH. SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION. A Press Association message from Dunedin reports the death of Dr. Daniel Colquhuon, aged 85, one of the early professors at the Otago Medical School. The passing of Dr. Daniel Colquhoun, M.D., F.R.C.P., marks the end of the early teachers of the Medical School. The Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Sir H. Lindo Ferguson, is now the only teacher who was appointed prior to 1914. Dr. Colquhoun came to New Zealand with a brilliant medical record, and happened to be in New Zealand when the lectureship in systematic medicine was vacant, and he stepped into the place and carried on the work until he resigned in 1915. His duties were so numerous that when a new appointment had to be made the work was divided. He was succeeded by Professor Cornwall Jones as professor of systematic medicine, and Dr. Frank Fitchett became professor of clinical medicine. After his retirement he was appointed emeritus professor and he retired to London with his wife, who was a Miss Macmillan, a daughter of one of the partners in the famous house of Macmillan, London publishers. After his wife died at London Dr. Colquhoun returned to Dunedin eight years ago and lived in retirement at St. Clair, taking an active interest in the amenities of Dunedin life. On account of his distinguished services to medicine he was elected to the degree of F.R.C.P.—a medical distinction which he was the first to hold in New Zealand.

The great majority of doctors practicing in New Zealand at the present time owe their training in medicine to Dr. Colquhoun. He was a very cultured man, keenly interested in books, literature and art, and the status of the medical profession in New Zealand owes much to his wisdom and his teaching.