Dunlop attended Edinburgh Academy from 1909-1919. He attended Brasenose College, Oxford and then the University of Edinburgh, graduating with an MB ChB in 1926, followed by an MD gained in 1927. He worked briefly in London before returning to Edinburgh to work under Sir Robert Philip on pioneering work regarding the treatment of tuberculosis before taking up the Christison Chair in Therapeutics and Clinical Pharmacology aged 34, and also concurrently being Senior Physician at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Dunlop tutored Joyce Baird, who went on to establish a Metabolic Unit and conduct laboratory and clinical research into diabetes and other endocrine disorders. In 1937 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir Robert William Philip, Arthur Logan Turner, Edwin Bramwell, and Sir Sydney Alfred Smith. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1960. In 1961 he was made official Physician to the Queen in Scotland, a post he held until 1965. He retired from his professorship in 1962. He lived most of his adult life at Bavelaw Castle near Balerno, to the south-west of Edinburgh, just south of Threipmuir Reservoir. In 1963 the British Government asked him to set up and chair a Committee following the thalidomide tragedy. This was called the Committee on the Safety of Medicines. In 1968 he became the first Chairman of the newly created Medicines Commission. He died in Edinburgh on 9 June 1980. See  In 1936 he married Marjorie Richardson, eldest daughter of Henry Edward Richardson WS. They had one son and one daughter. His grand-daughter Tessa Dunlop wrote the book "To Romania With Love". In relation to the thalidomide tragedy he said: "if experts are occasionally wrong they are less often wrong than non-experts ...nevertheless, we interfere with the prescribing doctor’s final freedom of decision at our peril in a free democracy". Edward Henry Murphy  Edward Henry Murphy (c1796 Dublin - 1847 Dublin) was an Irish painter of flowers, birds and still life. He studied art at the School of the Royal Dublin Society. He also produced caricatures for the Dublin media. He taught art, painted flower and fruit pieces and, on occasion, landscapes. He exhibited mainly in Dublin in the period 1812 to 1821, and with the Royal Hibernian Academy from 1826 to 1841, to which he was elected an Associate in November 1829. He died by suicide in 1847.