Publisher's Synopsis
John Gray McKendrick FRSE (12 August 1841 - 2 January 1926) was a distinguished Scottish Physiologist. He was born and studied in Aberdeen, Scotland, and served as professor at the University of Glasgow from 1876-1906. He was co-founder of the Physiological Society.John Gray McKendrick was born in Old Machar, Aberdeen in 1841 and went on the study at the University of Aberdeen and the University of Edinburgh before graduating in 1864 as an MB ChB. He married Mary Souttar in 1867 and two of their children, John Souttar M'Kendrick and Anderson Gray M'Kendrick, would go on to become fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in their own right.[3] In 1869, he became the assistant to the Professor of Physiology at the University of Edinburgh, John Hughes Bennett, pursuing his own research into the nervous system and special senses. Mckendrick went on to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1873, having been proposed by Sir William Turner, serving as a councillor and eventually the vice-president from 1894 until 1900
