James Jeffray (1759–1848) was a Scottish academic. He was professor of anatomy and botany at the University of Glasgow from 1790 until 1848. This 58 years of professorship is one of the longest in Scottish history.
In around 1830 he is credited with invention of the surgical chainsaw, used to remove damaged sections of bone in an accurate manner.
JamesJeffray (1759–1848) was a Scottish academic. He was professor of anatomy and botany at the University of Glasgow from 1790 until 1848. This 58 years...
18th century (c. 1783–1785) by two Scottish doctors, John Aitken and JamesJeffray, for symphysiotomy and excision of diseased bone, respectively. It was...
shipbuilder JamesJeffray, anatomist William Keddie, founder of the Scottish Sunday School system William Logan, temperance campaigner David MacBrayne James McCall...
Institution of Glasgow (founded by Thomas Hopkirk of Dalbeth and Prof JamesJeffray Professor of Botany at Glasgow University), and were intended to supply...
Corrie Road and hosts a range of functions throughout the year. Prof JamesJeffray (1759–1849) anatomist William Irvine (Scottish evangelist) Meulan, France...
Sir David Jack (1972) Chainsaw invented by surgeons John Aitken and JamesJeffray for widening the birth canal during difficult childbirth Glasgow coma...
abilities. On 4 November 1818 Ure assisted the professor of anatomy, JamesJeffray, in experiments he had been carrying out on the body of a murderer named...
(2016). Glasgow: The Autobiography. Birlinn. p. 35. ISBN 9780857909183. "JamesJeffray". The University of Glasgow Story. University of Glasgow. Retrieved...
Professor of Anatomy in the University of Glasgow in 1848, in succession to JamesJeffray. This chair he held until 1877, when he resigned it and went to live...
Deputy Professor of Botany at the University of Glasgow under Prof JamesJeffray. He resigned this post in 1816 and was replaced by Robert Graham, just...
The Scots Magazine and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany. 79: 414–416. "JamesJeffray". The University of Glasgow Story. University of Glasgow. Retrieved...
Sir Geoffrey Boleyn (1406–1463; also Jeffray Bulleyn, Bullen, etc.) was an English merchant and politician who served as Lord Mayor of London from 1457...
Thomas William Jeffray Barron (16 February 1908 – 29 September 1966) was a New Zealand lawn bowls player who represented his country at two British Empire...
converted to Roman Catholicism in 1623. The vicar from 1622 was William Jeffray or Jeffreye, Aston's chaplain but an inexperienced cleric, straight out...
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