Biography of Eleanor Marjorie Torrance Park

Eleanor Marjorie Torrance graduated MBChB from the University in 1922. She was born in Tiberias, Israel, daughter of medical missionary Dr David Watt Torrance.

Torrance enrolled at the University in the summer of 1916 to study Medicine, as her brother, Herbert Watt, and sister, Lydia Ida Huber, had done before her. During her studies, Torrance was awarded second class certificates for the Practical Botany examination (1916-17), Practical Pharmacy (1917-18) and Practical Physiology (1918-19).

Shortly after graduation, Torrance married Thomas Walter Urquhart Park, a planter from South Africa, at St Andrew's Church in Colombo, Sri Lanka on 08 July 1924. Park worked for Harrisons and Crosfield Ltd in Travancore, modern day Kerala, India, where they lived together.

Sources

Other Online Resources

• The Torrance Collection at the University of Dundee

Archival Materials

• R7/3/7 Glasgow University Class Prize Index 1916-1919, p.31, 78, 124

Summary

Eleanor Marjorie Torrance Park
Born 1898.
GU Degree: MBChB, 1922; Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences,
University Link: Alumnus, Graduate
Occupation categories: physicians
English snippet: Medical graduate of the University of Glasgow in 1922
Record last updated: 18th Sep 2013

Country Associations

Israel, Tiberias
Place of Birth

India, Travancore

Sri Lanka, Colombo

University Connections

University Roles

• Alumnus
• Graduate [View Eleanor Marjorie Torrance Park's record in the list of graduates]