William McIntyre
BMJ 2017; 357 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.j2184 (Published 08 May 2017) Cite this as: BMJ 2017;357:j2184- David Wigglesworth
William McIntyre (“Bill”) was born in the village of Gartsherrie, near Airdrie in north Lanarkshire. He was the only son of Sandy and Margaret McIntyre, and he was brought up in Airdrie for the early part of his life. After attending Clarkson Primary School, and ending up as head boy, and then he went on to Airdrie Academy. He was only there for two terms, however, because his father got a job as clerk of works at Aberdeen University, and the family moved north when Bill was 11. Bill attended Robert Gordon’s Academy College, where he distinguished himself by winning the English prize every year, although in later life, he summed up his school career as “enjoyable, but not distinguished.”
Having resisted pressure to study English, he was determined to study medicine and embarked on the medical course at Aberdeen University. For two years, all went well; he played football, rugby, and golf; he also joined the officer training corps, but the country was embroiled in the second world war, and at the end of his second year, 29 students in his year joined up: remarkably, …
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