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List Of Presidents Of The Royal College Of Physicians Of Edinburgh
This is an incomplete list of the presidents of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, which was granted its royal charter, Royal Charter by Charles II in 1681. List of presidents Source (1681–1867): Historical Sketch and Laws of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, published by RCPE, 1867 See also * List of presidents of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh References * {{Cite book, title= Charter and regulations of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, publisher=RCPE, year= 1789, page=97 Presidents of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Lists of presidents of organizations, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Lists of physicians, Presidents of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Lists of office-holders in Scotland, Presidents of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal College Of Physicians Of Edinburgh
The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (RCPE) is a medical royal college in Scotland. It is one of three organisations that sets the specialty training standards for physicians in the United Kingdom. It was established by Royal charter in 1681. The college claims to have 12,000 fellows and members worldwide. History The RCPE was formed by a royal charter, granted in 1681, with Sir Robert Sibbald recognised as playing a key part in the negotiations. Three applications preceded this and had been unsuccessful. There were 21 original Fellows, eleven of whom were graduates or students of the University of Leiden. The Universities (Scotland) Act 1858 resulted in several items from the College's Charter becoming obsolete, and they obtained a further charter on 31 October 1861. In 1920 the College enacted changes that allowed women to be admitted on the same terms as men. The charter was amended on 7 May 2005. Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia In 1699 The College first published a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian George Wilson Hill
Sir Ian George Wilson Hill (7 September 1904 – 5 May 1982) was a Scottish physician. He was President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh from 1963 to 1966 and the official Physician to the Queen in Scotland. He was Chairman of the British Cardiac Society. Life Hill was born in Shotts, Lanarkshire, the son of Jean Robertson Malcolm and Andrew Wilson Hill, a banker. His early years were spent in South Uist where he acquired a love of nature and fly-fishing in particular. His family then moved to Edinburgh where he was educated at George Watson's College. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh under Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer and William Thomas Ritchie, graduating MB ChB with honours in 1928, and winning the Ettles Scholarship for that year, plus a Rockefeller Travelling Scholarship. With the latter he travelled to Ann Arbor, Michigan to work with the leading electrocardiologist Frank N. Wilson. He then spent time in Vienna working with Karl Wenckeb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Walker (1916–1985), officer in the British Colonial Office
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Robert Thin
Robert Thin PRCPE (1861–1941) was a 20th-century Scottish physician who served as President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh from 1931 to 1933, and was the first GP in this role. Life He was born at 54 South Bridge in Edinburgh in 1861 the youngest (and seventh) son of Catherine Traquair and her husband, James Thin, a bookseller. The family moved to a villa at 7 Rillbank Terrace in the Grange in his youth, as his father's company grew. He was educated at the Royal High School then took a general degree at the University of Edinburgh graduating with an MA in 1883, allowing him to then study medicine and graduating with an MB ChB in 1887. Following graduation he became house surgeon to Professor John Chiene. He was then House Physician to Dr John Wylie at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary on Lauriston Place before going to the Sick Children's Hospital, Edinburgh. He then became a general practitioner. In 1910 he was living at 25 Abercromby Place in Edin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Byrom Bramwell
Sir Byrom Bramwell FRSE FRCPE LLD (18 December 1847 – 27 April 1931) was an eminent British physician and medical author. He was a general physician, but became known for his work in neurology, diseases of the heart and blood, and disorders of the endocrine organs. He was president of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. Early life Bramwell was born on 18 December 1847 in North Shields in northern England, the son of Mary Young and Dr John Byrom Bramwell. He was educated at Cheltenham College and then in 1865 travelled to Scotland to study medicine at the University of Edinburgh. There he studied under the eminent anatomist, John Goodsir, as well as a number of other prominent Edinburgh physicians, including John Hughes Bennett, James Syme, and James Young Simpson. A keen sportsman, Bramwell also captained the University cricket team. Career In 1869 he became house surgeon under James Spence at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, but his father’s sudden illness ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwin Bramwell
Edwin Bramwell FRSE PRCPE LLD (1873–1952) was a 20th-century Scottish neurologist. He was President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh from 1933 to 1935. Life He was born in North Shields on 11 January 1873 the son of Martha (née Crighton) and Sir Byrom Bramwell. He was educated at Cheltenham College. He then studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh graduating MB ChB in 1896. After graduation he began working at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary then moved to the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic in London. He then did a years further postgraduate study in Freiburg in Germany. In 1900 he settled in Edinburgh as a consultant and in 1902 moved to work in Leith Hospital as Assistant Physician. In 1907 he returned to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary as Assistant Physician. In 1906 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Daniel John Cunningham, John Chiene, George Chrystal and Alexander Bruce. At this time he li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Thomas Ritchie
Professor William Thomas Ritchie FRSE PRCPE LLD OBE (3 November 1873 – 7 February 1945) was a Scottish cardiologist who served as President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh from 1935 to 1937. Life He was born on 3 November 1873 in Edinburgh, the son of Robert Brown Ritchie (1829-1906) and his wife Alicia Julia Scarth. The family lived at 13 Danube Street in the Stockbridge district. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy 1884 to 1890 then studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh graduating MB ChB in 1896. He did further postgraduate study in Vienna. He gained his MD in 1899. He had a 40-year career in Edinburgh mainly at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and Deaconess Hospital. In 1905 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were George Alexander Gibson, Diarmid Noel Paton, Daniel John Cunningham and Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer. In the First World War, he served as Medical Officer attached to the 1/3rd Scottish Horse a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles McNeil (physician)
Charles McNeil FRCPE FRCP RSE (21 September 1881 – 27 April 1964) was a physician specialising in paediatrics, in particular neonatal paediatrics. He was a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of both London and Edinburgh, and was President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh from 1940-1943. Life McNeil studied medicine at Edinburgh University, graduating M.B. in 1905. At the outset of World War I, he was commissioned as a Major in the Royal Army Medical Corps attached to the Scottish Branch of the British Red Cross Society, and from 1915-1918 was in command of the military hospital at Rouen. After World War I, McNeil returned to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, and also conducted a lectureship in children's diseases at the University of Edinburgh. On his retirement, Professor McNeil was given the honorary degree of LL.D by the University. In 1932 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were James Watt, Sir Edward Albe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Fergus Hewat
Dr Andrew Fergus Hewat FRSE (1884–3 August 1957) was a Scottish physician involved with mental health. He donated the Fergus Hewat Cup to the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, an annual golf championship. This is played between the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, and a combined team from the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Life He was born in 1884 the son of Elizabeth Wilson Fergus, sister of Andrew Freeland Fergus and John Freeland Fergus, and her husband Archibald Hewat FRSE FFA FIA (1838–1915), a life assurance agent. They lived at 12 Saxe-Coburg Place in Stockbridge, Edinburgh. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy (1891–1902), just east of his home, and then studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, gaining an MD in 1925. He became Consultant Physician to the Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Mental and Nervous Disorders in Morningside, Edinburgh. He then lived at 13 Eton Terrace ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Murray Lyon (physician)
David Malcolm Murray Lyon FRSE DPH (1888-1956) was an English physician and medical author. He was president of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh from 1945–47, and was editor of the Edinburgh Medical Journal. Life He was born in Wooler in Northumberland on 12 September 1888. He was the son of Ebinizer (sic) Campbell and William Malcolm Lyon, a veterinary surgeon. He was educated at George Watson's College then studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, graduating MB ChB in 1910. In the First World War he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps attached to the Cavalry Field Ambulance and saw action in both Rouen and Mons. After the war he became Assistant physician at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary under Jonathan Meakins, jointly working on insulin research, and being joined by Charles George Lambie from 1922. He received his doctorate ( MD) in 1920 with his thesis ''The viscosity of the blood'' and a DSc in 1924 with his thesis ''Some observations on the action o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Henderson (psychiatrist)
David Kennedy Henderson FRSE FRCPE (24 April 1884 – 20 April 1965) was a Scotland, Scottish physician and psychiatrist and served as president of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh 1949 to 1951. Biography He was born on 24 April 1884 in Dumfries, Scotland. In 1913 he was awarded a PhD by the University of Edinburgh for his thesis "Cerebral syphilis a clinical analysis of twenty-six cases, seven with autopsy". He co-published with R.D. Gillespie ''A Textbook of Psychiatry'' (first edition 1927), which became internationally influential for several decades. A series of lectures he gave in New York, America, were published as ''Psychopathic states'' in 1939, and ended up contributing to a narrowing of the public understanding of psychopathy as violently antisocial, though Henderson had described various different types many of which were not violent or criminal. The Henderson Hospital, a specialist national unit in London set up to manage and treat the now contested diag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Alister Alexander
William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of England in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will, Wills, Willy, Willie, Bill, and Billy. A common Irish form is Liam. Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie or the play ''Douglas''). Female forms are Willa, Willemina, Wilma and Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the given name ''Wilhelm'' (cf. Proto-Germanic ᚹᛁᛚᛃᚨᚺᛖᛚᛗᚨᛉ, ''*Wiljahelmaz'' > German ''Wilhelm'' and Old Norse ᚢᛁᛚᛋᛅᚼᛅᛚᛘᛅᛋ, ''Vilhjálmr''). By regular sound changes, the native, inherited English form of the name shoul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
