Photo of Roddick Gate Mcgill University

-- In 1924, McGill acquired a permanent and monumental entrance. Lady Amy Redpath Roddick donated the Roddick Gates in memory of her beloved husband, Sir Thomas George Roddick, a renowned doctor who began the regular practice of sterile surgery using antiseptics and was dean of the Faculty of Medicine from 1901 to 1908. Sir Thomas was a very punctual man and so Lady Roddick decided that the most fitting memorial would be an entrance gate that incorporated a clock tower, complete with chimes at each end. Ironically, the clocks and chimes periodically stop with each of the four faces telling a different time. Lady Roddick commissioned Gratton Thompson to carry out the work on the Gates. His design gave the University the Classical Greek style colonnaded arms that welcome passersby onto the grounds of McGill today