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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] |
Danube Street, Edinburgh
The Danube ( ; ) is a river that was once a long-standing frontier of the Roman Empire and today connects 10 European countries, running through their territories or being a border. Originating in Germany, the Danube flows southeast for , passing through or bordering Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova, and Ukraine before draining into the Black Sea. Its drainage basin extends into nine more countries. List of cities and towns on Danube river, The largest cities on the river are Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade and Bratislava, all of which are the capitals of their respective countries; the Danube passes through four capital cities, more than any other river in the world. Five more capital cities lie in the Danube's basin: Bucharest, Sofia, Zagreb, Ljubljana and Sarajevo. The fourth-largest city in its basin is Munich, the capital of Bavaria, standing on the Isar River. The Danube is the List of rivers of Europe#Longest rivers, second-longest riv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
