Edward McCombie McGirr [SEP] educated at
Edward McCombie McGirr
Edward McCombie McGirr was Muirhead professor of medicine at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, a former President of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow and Dean of Faculties at the University of Glasgow.
Early life and career.
Born in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland on 15 June 1916 and educated at the prestigious Hamilton Academy school from which he won a bursary to attend the University of Glasgow which he entered in 1934, McGirr graduated BSc in 1937 and MB ChB with honours in 1940.
Following house
Plantation, receiving a number of grants of lands at the time. They are to be found later in the 1660s as taxpayers in the Clogher Valley and elsewhere in Tyrone. Today the family is generally found as McGirr, McGerr, McKerr and in the anglicised version as Short.
Some individuals with the name include:
- Eamonn McGirr (1940–2004), Irish-born entertainer in New York's Capital District area
- Edmund McGirr, one of the pseudonyms of writer Kenneth Giles
- Edward McCombie McGirr (1916–2003