The life of professor Orlando Charnock Bradley, (1871-1937): Building the Summerhall site. Part 2.
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2011Author
Warwick, Colin M
Macdonald, Alastair A
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Abstract
In February 2006 the Royal (Dick) Scbool of Veterinary Studies, locally known
as the Dick Vet, received a unique historical legacy in the form of ten volumes
of Professor Orlando Charnock Bradley's personal diary, from his grand niece
Mrs Frances Harrison. The authors have extracted parts from these diaries to
illustrate aspects of his life in Edinburgh In this second of our three summaries
we largely present the period encompassing the construction of the Summerhall
site, with extracts from tbe diary shown in italics. The imminent transfer of the
Dick Vet from Summerhall to a consolidated site at Easter Bush in 2011
deemed the timing of this paper to be appropriate. One hundred years earlier a
comparable move was under consideration. Orlando Charnock Bradley, who
had taught veterinary anatomy at Williams' New Veterinary College in
Edinburgh until 1900 was that year appointed Professor of Veterinary Anatomy
at the Royal (Dick) Veterinary College, and in 1911 was promoted to become
the Principal of the College (Fig. 1). At that time the Dick Vet was located in
Clyde Street, a confined Edinburgh New Town side-street.