Professor John Edgar Morison OBE, MD, DSc, FRCOG, FRCPath (1912–2007)

Dr JE Morison, later to become Honorary Professor of Histopathology, died on 5 September, 2007 aged 95, after a short illness. To all his colleagues he was familiarly known as ‘John Edgar’. He gave outstanding service to the Ulster Medical Society, acting as editor of the Ulster Medical Journal for 32 years (1951-1984). Professor DAD Montgomery was his co-editor from 1975-1984. In his review of “The Editors of the UMJ”, Professor David Hadden has commented on how the journal prospered under his guidance, becoming internationally recognised “with citations in Current