Ronald Cumming
Ronald Patrick 'Ronnie' Cumming (b. 15 August 1923, Golspie, Sutherland, Scotland, d. 4 February 2007, Aberdeen) was a Consultant Surgeon at the Gilbert Bain Hospital and a Lerwick Town Councillor from 1967 until 1975.
He unsuccessfully contested the 1967 Lerwick Town Council election. and the Lerwick Breiwick seat at the inaugural Shetland Islands Council election 1974.
Biography
Ronald graduated M.B, Ch.B. from the University of Aberdeen in 1945 and took up his first post as assistant G.P in Huntly. He followed this with assistant in the Department of Anatomy in 1947. He was assistant G.P in Rhynie in 1949, Junior Surgical Officer at Ronkswood Hospital, Worcester in 1950 then Senior House Officer and Registrar at Victoria Hospital, Burnley. He obtained his F.R.C.S in 1952 from Edinburgh. He became Senior Registrar at Aberdeen General Hospital
Ronald was appointed as consultant general surgeon at the Gilbert Bain in late 1957, replacing Charles Anderson who had been transferred to Arbroath. For some years prior, Ronald had been a relief surgeon for the Isles. He held this new role until 1980. He retired from his profession in 1985.
He was also a member of the British Medical Association North Sea Oil Working Party in the 1970s. He was made a Fellow of the British Medical Association in March 1982 on nomination of the Shetland branch of the British Medical Association
Political Career
- Lerwick Town Council By-Election August 1967
- Lerwick Town Council Election May 1968
- Lerwick Town Council Election May 1971
