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John Dalziel Wyndham Pearce
(1904-1994)
Physician and psychiatrist
Dr Pearce was born in Edinburgh, educated at George Watson's College
and the University of Edinburgh to which he remained very attached throughout
his life. His many posts included Physician-in-Charge, Department of
Psychiatry, St Mary's Hospital, Paddington; the Queen Elizabeth Hosp[ital
for Children; and the Royal Masonic Hospital; Medical director of the
Portman Clinic and Institute for the Study and Treatment of Delinquency.
He was also member, officer and advisor to many committees on delinquency
and children's welfare, and was an examiner for the Royal Colleges in
Edinburgh and elsewhere.
In 1997 Mrs Elizabeth Pearce (née Lewis) gave the Library,
in her husband's memory,
a considerable sum to enable it to purchase from Edinburgh City Library
several historic
and rare books on architecture; these enhanced the Library's own research
collections,
and prevented the volumes from leaving the City of Edinburgh.
A Friend of the University Library, she also gifted to the Library
a picture painted ca
1920 by Thomas Wilson, Keeper of the Pictures at the House of Lords,
in the experimental medium of silicon ester. Mrs Pearce's father, E.
I. Lewis, Chief Scientific Advisor to the paint manufacturers Albright
& Wilson, had developed silicon ester in association with Arthur
Pillans Laurie, Principal of Heriot-Watt College, Edinburgh (now Heriot-Watt
University). The picture is on display in the Wolfson Suite Exhibition
Room, Main Library.
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