Old Photograph Stockbridge Scotland

Old photograph of Stockbridge, Edinburgh, Scotland. Originally a small outlying village, it was incorporated into the City of Edinburgh in the 19th century. Donald Mainland was born in Edinburgh in 1902, the son of William Mainland, a confectioner running a shop at 140 St Stephen Street in the Stockbridge area. He studied Medicine at Edinburgh University and graduating MB ChB and gaining a doctorate in 1930. He gained fame in Scotland lecturing in Anatomy at Edinburgh University and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1938. In 1949 he emigrated to Nova Scotia to take on the role of Professor of Anatomy at Dalhousie University. His personality clashed with his junior colleague, Dr Richard Holbourne Saunders, who then replaced him, and one year later he was appointed Professor of Biostatics in the Department of Preventative Medicine at the Bellevue Hospital Medical College in New York City in the United States. In 1953 he moved to the Department of Medical Statistics as its Chairman. He died in 1985.

Old photograph of St Bernard's Well in Stockbridge, Edinburgh, Scotland.

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