Ernest_Cotchin
Ernest Cotchin FRCVS FRCPath (23 August 1917 – 27 September 1988) was Professor of Veterinary Pathology at the Royal Veterinary College between 1963 and 1982.[1][2] He was Vice-Principal of the Royal Veterinary College from 1974 until 1988, and a world expert on neoplasia in domestic mammals.[1][3] Cotchin's entire career was based at the Royal Veterinary College and, together with contributions to learned journals, he wrote a history of the Royal Veterinary College that was published posthumously with the help of a former colleague, Valerie Carter.[4] His obituary in The Independent claimed his greatest achievements were in comparative pathology for which he was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists in 1964.[1]