John Gordon Harrower, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

John Gordon Harrower

Scottish anatomist

Date of Birth: 04-Apr-1890

Place of Birth: Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 09-Apr-1936

Profession: anatomist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aries

John Gordon Harrower FRSE FRCSE (1890-1936) was a Scottish anatomist.
He was an expert on the human skull, and classified many separate Asiatic types. Harrower was born on 4 April 1890 in Glasgow the son of John Harrower in Langside in the south of the city.
He won a scholarship to Allan Glen's School and was educated alongside contemporaries such as John Vernon Harrison.
Initially training primarily in mathematics and electricity, in 1910 he obtained a senior post at Glasgow Tramways Power Station, which he retained until 1919.His interested shifted from electricity to radiology, and he retrained as a physician.
He attended night school at the Royal Technical College in Glasgow and graduated MB ChB in 1913 and gained his doctorate in 1918.
In 1919 he became a Demonstrator (dissecting bodies in front of students during anatomy lectures) at Glasgow University.
In 1922 he was given a professorship to teach anatomy at the Singapore Medical College.
In 1926 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
His proposers were Thomas Hastie Bryce, Sir John Graham Kerr, Diarmid Noel Paton, and Ralph Stockman.He died in Singapore on 9 April 1936, a few days after his 46th birthday.