John Robinson Imrie Collection

• Reference:GB 254 MS 271
• Dates of Creation:1931-2006
• Name of Creator:
  John Robinson Imrie
• Physical Description:
  1 folder and 4 tubes

• Scope and Content

  Material relating to Imrie's time as a medical student at University College Dundee 1932-1977, including certificates 1932-1937, photographs and ephemera 1935-1977. Material relating to Imrie's time in the Officer Training Corps and infantry 1933-1936.

• Administrative / Biographical History

  John Robinson Imrie was born in Wormit on Tay in 1914, attending secondary school at Harris Academy. He resided at Hawkhill Place while he studied medicine at University College Dundee. His brother Claude had also attended University College. John also had two sisters, Muriel and Olive, both of whom served as nurses in Egypt and the Royal Air Force respectively. Graduating in 1937, John worked as a Senior House Officer at Harrogate Hospital, moving on to work as a ships surgeon. Returning from this post, he worked at Torbay Hospital before joining the Royal Army Medial Corps. In this post he served in India and the Middle East, reaching the rank of Major. After the war, he joined with Dr. Venn-Dunn in General Practice in Torquay, now the medical centre at St Mary Church, Vale of Glamorgan. He was also clinical assistant in the Geriatric department at Paignton Hospital, and Newton Abbot Hospital. He was involved in founding Lily Derry Day Hospital at Torbay, and was medical officer to both the Post Office and the Territorial Army. John died in 2000. His parents, Alexander McRaith Imrie (1878 - 1937) and Tabitha Wilson Robinson (1879 - 1943), are buried in Belgray Cemetery, plot number FF 774.

• Arrangement

  Usually chronological within series.

• Access Information

  Open for consultation subject to preservation requirements. Access must also conform to the restrictions of the Data Protection Act (2018), General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR, 2018) and any other relevant legislation or restrictions. Clinical information is closed for 100 years.

• Acquisition Information

  Deposited by Imrie's wife Mrs S. Imrie

• Note

  John Robinson Imrie was born in Wormit on Tay in 1914, attending secondary school at Harris Academy. He resided at Hawkhill Place while he studied medicine at University College Dundee. His brother Claude had also attended University College. John also had two sisters, Muriel and Olive, both of whom served as nurses in Egypt and the Royal Air Force respectively. Graduating in 1937, John worked as a Senior House Officer at Harrogate Hospital, moving on to work as a ships surgeon. Returning from this post, he worked at Torbay Hospital before joining the Royal Army Medial Corps. In this post he served in India and the Middle East, reaching the rank of Major. After the war, he joined with Dr. Venn-Dunn in General Practice in Torquay, now the medical centre at St Mary Church, Vale of Glamorgan. He was also clinical assistant in the Geriatric department at Paignton Hospital, and Newton Abbot Hospital. He was involved in founding Lily Derry Day Hospital at Torbay, and was medical officer to both the Post Office and the Territorial Army. John died in 2000. His parents, Alexander McRaith Imrie (1878 - 1937) and Tabitha Wilson Robinson (1879 - 1943), are buried in Belgray Cemetery, plot number FF 774.

• Other Finding Aids

  Descriptive list. Subject source lists and databases are also available.

• Physical Characteristics and/or Technical Requirements

  The records are on paper and include photographs.

• Archivist's Note

  Description compiled by Keren Guthrie August 2008

• Conditions Governing Use

  Reproduction is available subject to preservation requirements. Charges may be made for this service, and copyright and other restrictions may apply; please check with the Duty Archivist.

• Accruals

  Not expected

• Related Material

  Material relating to Imrie's time as a Scout is held by the local Scouts Association. The Maritime Museum in Liverpool holds letters from Imrie to his mother while he was at sea. Photocopies of photographs and newspaper clippings relating to the 'Harris Academy Medallists' and Johns' service aboard the S.S Pyrrus, newly qualified.

• Additional Information

  Published

  Catalogued

  MS 271