| Archibald McKendrick | |
| Birth Date: | 1 June 1876 |
| Birth Place: | Kirkcaldy, Fife |
| Death Place: | Edinburgh |
| Fields: | Dentistry, Radiology |
Dr Archibald McKendrick LDS FRSE DPH (1 June 1876 – 2 November 1960) was a Scottish dentist and radiologist. He was one of the first people in Britain to use X-rays in dentistry.
He was born in Kirkcaldy in Fife on 1 June 1876, the son of James D. McKendrick, dental surgeon. He followed in his father's footsteps and qualified as a Dentist in Edinburgh in 1899. In 1907 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
From 1909 he was working as Surgeon/Dental Surgeon in charge of Radiology under Dawson Turner with William Hope Fowler at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. He was then living at 27 Chalmers Street next to the Infirmary.[1] In 1914 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Arthur Robinson, Henry Harvey Littlejohn, David Berry Hart, and Thomas William Drinkwater.[2]
He died in Edinburgh on 2 November 1960 aged 84.
In 1909 he married Gertrude Maud Smith.