Abstract
Herbert Percival Cooper (Perry) Harrison, FRCGP, Glasgow University, a founder member of the RCGP, died aged 100 on 29 September 2016. He practised as a single-handed rural GP for 35 years and was responsible for the College’s coat of arms and its guiding motto: Cum Scientia Caritas [‘Compassion with knowledge’]. He studied at the University of Glasgow where he gained a hockey blue, graduating in 1940. During the war he was a medical officer in the Merchant Navy with the Clan Line before serving in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve as a Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander. This included spending 3 hours in an open boat when he was responsible for recovering badly-burned survivors from the wreckage of the frigate HMS Tweed: selecting those whom he believed most likely …
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