{{Short description|Scottish pharmaceutical chemist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2017}} {{Use British English|date=March 2017}} [[File:The villa terminating Smiths Place in Leith.JPG|thumb|280px|The impressive villa terminating Smiths Place in Leith was George Coull's home and the office of Raimes Clark & Co]] Dr '''George Coull''' FRSE (1862? – 10 January 1934) was a Scottish pharmaceutical chemist. He served as Managing Director of '''Raimes Clark & Co''', parent company to Scotland's largest independent chemist, '''Lindsay & Gilmour'''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=An Illustrated History of Lindsay and Gilmour and Raimes Clark and Co Ltd |url=http://www.lindsayandgilmour.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/An-Illustrated-History-of-Lindsay-and-Gilmour-and-Raimes-Clark-and-Co-Ltd.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151118083256/http://www.lindsayandgilmour.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/An-Illustrated-History-of-Lindsay-and-Gilmour-and-Raimes-Clark-and-Co-Ltd.pdf |archive-date=18 November 2015 |access-date=17 November 2015}}</ref>
==Life==
He was born in Edinburgh in about 1862. He attended Daniel Stewart's College where he excelled. He was then apprenticed to a pharmacist, taking extra lessons and exams in pharmacology at Surgeons' Hall.
For most of his life he lived on the first floor of the impressive Georgian villa at the end of Smiths Place, off Leith Walk in Edinburgh, above the offices of Raimes, Clark & Co for whom he acted as managing director.<ref>The Yearbook of Pharmacy, 1898</ref><ref>Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory, 1932</ref>
The University of Edinburgh awarded him a (DSc) in 1899.<ref>{{Cite thesis |last=Coull |first=George |date=1899 |title=Thesis on the preparation of phenyl-betaine |language=en |publisher=University of Edinburgh|hdl=1842/23813 }}</ref>
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1929. His proposers were George Barger, Alfred Archibald Boon, Alexander Lauder, and Leonard Dobbin.<ref>{{Cite web |date=July 2006 |title=Former Fellows of The Royal Society of Edinburgh |url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130124115814/http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf |archive-date=24 January 2013 |access-date=17 November 2015}}</ref> He served on the Board of Examiners for the training of pharmacists in Scotland. He was elected a member of Edinburgh Town Council in 1913 and rose to the level of Bailie of the Burgh. He was also a senior member of the Edinburgh Gas Commission, giving invaluable professional information relating to Edinburgh's gas supply. In 1928-29 he served as President of the Stewarts College Club.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.smcfpclub.org.uk/smcfpclub/Distinguished%20Former%20Pupils.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2015-09-26 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150927045028/http://www.smcfpclub.org.uk/smcfpclub/Distinguished%20Former%20Pupils.pdf |archivedate=27 September 2015 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
He died on 10 January 1934. He was survived by a widow, two daughters and two sons.<ref>Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, vol 54, January 1935</ref>
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