Robert Curran

Robert Crowe Curran (28 July 1921 – 5 September 2006) was a British pathologist, Leith Professor of Pathology, Birmingham University, 1966–1986.

He served as president of the Royal College of Pathologists from 1981 to 1984.

Life He was born in Wishaw in central Scotland the son of John Hamilton Curran, ex-foreman of the local steelworks, and his wife, Sarah Carson Crowe. His brother was the physicist Sir Samuel Crowe Curran. He was educated at Wishaw High School then studied medicine at Glasgow University graduating in 1943. From 1945 until 1947 he served as a physician with the Royal Army Medical Corps in India.

He died on 5 September 2006, aged 85.

Publications

Colour Atlas of Histopathology (1996)

Family

He married Margaret Marion Park in 1947 following demobilisation from the army. They had one son, Andrew Curran, and one daughter, Marjorie Curran.