Colin MacKay

bmj;384/mar19_7/q646/FAF1faThe death of Colin MacKay has taken from us one of the few remaining individuals who was part of Charles Illingworth’s highly regarded and productive department of surgery at the Western Infirmary in Glasgow. After his initial appointment as Hall tutorial fellow he went on to become lecturer and subsequently senior lecturer in surgery but his contribution to surgical training and education generally extended to a national level.Born to Kenneth and Margaret MacKay in a nursing home in the Park Circus area of Glasgow in the prewar years, Colin was subsequently evacuated along with his cousins on his mother’s side to Tighnabruich in Argyll, where he started primary school.. After returning to Glasgow he was enrolled in Hillhead High School, and he never grew tired of recalling for the benefit of his own children and grandchildren how, as a small boy, he travelled each day, unaccompanied, by bus from Milngavie…
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