| honorific_suffix = MD

| address = University Professor of St Andrews [A63]Anatomy, King's College, London, WC| occupation = medical<br />academic<br />anatomist

| elected_AI = 19221909.0201.1520

| membership = ordinary fellow - fellowship not taken up| left = 1913 last listed

| societies = Royal College of Surgeons

19221908.0111.17 10 proposed by DJ. MacRitchieGrey, seconded by EA.N. Fallaize, F.C. Shrubsall Francis Dixon<br /><br />Dept of Anatomy, University of Edinburgh; later Prof. of Anatomy, King’s College, London

THE death of Prof . David Waterston OBE FRSE (1871–1942) was a 20th-century British surgeon and anatomist. He was on September 4 at the Bute Professor age of Anatomy at St Andrews University.<br /><br />Waterston was seventy-one removed one of the first to debunk distinguished anatomists of the Piltdown Man hoax, correctly pointing out that Edinburgh School and a familiar figure for the jaw and skull did not match correctly<br /><br />He was born past twenty-eight years in the Govan district life of Glasgow on 25 August 1871 the son University of Rev Richard Waterston (1830-1892) of Union Church on Morrison Street, and his wife Isabella AndersonSt. The family lived at 2 Park Grove on the Paisley RoadAndrews.[2] His father moved to St Paul's Church After graduating in Dundee arts in 1878.[3] Ironically the family then lived at 2 Park Place in Dundee (very similar to their Glasgow address).[4]<br /><br />He studied for a general degree at University of Edinburgh University (he took the home town of his parents) graduating MA around 1890 then studied Medicine under Sir William Turner graduating MB ChB M. B., C. M. in 1895, the F. R. C. He then began lecturing in Anatomy at the university alongside David HepburnS. He gained his doctorate (MDEd.) in 1898 and won the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh's Gold Medal in 1900.[5] In 1900 he was living at 16 Merchiston Terrace in west Edinburgh.[6]<br /><br />In 1901 he was elected a Fellow degree of the Royal Society of EdinburghM. His proposers were Sir William Turner, Ramsay Heatley Traquair, Robert Munro, and David HepburnD.[7]<br /><br />In 1909 he was still working in Edinburgh and lived at 1 Coates Place in the West End of the city, with a very large terraced townhouse gold medal for his thesis in the West End of the City1900.[8Nature]<br /><br />He was Professor Anatomist David Waterston of Anatomy at King's College, London from around 1910. During this period he came to national fame in 1913 as the first person to discredit decided that the two specimens could not belong together and that 'Piltdown Man hoax which had been made public in December 1912.[9]<br /><br />In 1914 he became the Bute Professor of Anatomy at St Andrews University in 1914, succeeding Prof James Musgrove.[10]<br /><br />He died on 4 September 1942.[11] When he died there ' was just an inter-regnum in the Bute chair due ape jaw attached to the Second World War. He was eventually succeeded in 1946 by Prof Robert Walmsleya human skull.<br /><br />He was married to Isabel Amy Simsom. Their children included Brigadier Surgeon Richard E Waterston FRCS and David James Waterston FRCSE.[12]