William John Tulloch

Prof William John Tulloch MD FRSE (1887–1966) was a 20th-century Scottish bacteriologist and medical author. He was an expert on tetanus.

Life

He was born in Dundee on 12 November 1887 the youngest of five children of Henry Tulloch.[1] His father and uncle were hatters, with two shops, H & W Tulloch in Dundee. They lived at 14 Albany Terrace in Dundee.[2] His mother, Coralie von Wassenhove, was from Waerschoot in Belgium.[1]

He studied medicine at St Andrews University and graduated MB ChB in 1909. In 1914 he became the first lecturer in Bacteriology at University College, Dundee.[3]

In the First World War he served as a lecturer at the Royal Army Medical College and on the War Office Committee on Tetanus.

He rose to be Dean of Medicine.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1960. His proposers were George Bell, Norman Davidson, Ian George Wilson Hill and Ernest Geoffrey Cullwick.[4]

He retired in 1962 and died in Cosham on the south coast of Hampshire on 26 August 1966.

Family

He was married to "Miss Sheridan". His brother Alphonse Martin Tulloch was a noted mariner who served as Fifth Officer of the RMS Olympic (sister ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic) at the time of its 1911 maiden voyage.[5]

Artistic recognition

His portrait by A. G. C. Ross is held by Dundee University.[6]

Publications

  • Diagnostic Value of the Vaccinia Variola Fluctuation Test (1929)

References

  1. ^ a b McLeod, J. W. (1968). "William John Tulloch. 1 April 1887—26 August 1966". The Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology. 95 (1): 336–348. doi:10.1002/path.1700950146. PMID 4868431.
  2. ^ Dundee Post Office Directory 1887
  3. ^ "Professor William John Tulloch, Chair of Bacteriology, University College and Queen's College, Dundee - Archives Hub".
  4. ^ 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 28 December 2018.
  5. ^ "The Tullo alias Tulloch family in Dundee, Liff and Tealing 1650-1960" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 December 2021.
  6. ^ "Professor William John Tulloch (1887–1966), Dean of Medicine | Art UK".


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