Hugh Parker Dinwoodie

bmj;386/sep06_2/q1932/FAF1faHugh Dinwoodie was a GP, an enthusiastic piper, a lifelong climber, and a keen archaeologist. He was born in Derby in 1930, the son of a Scottish doctor practising “down south.” Hugh, the eldest of three siblings, was sent back to Scotland to be educated at Merchiston Castle School, where he was introduced to piping. He later became pipe major and a stalwart of the first XV. The pipes remained a passion all his life. After school he went to Glasgow University to study medicine. It was here that he discovered two new loves—climbing and fellow trainee doctor and climber, Doreen Ireland.After hospital training, Hugh and Doreen married and, after a brief time in Perth, he accepted an offer to go into partnership with Jacko Simpson in Trinity, Edinburgh. He worked and lived there for the next 66 years, with Doreen by his sideHugh was one of the first GPs…
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