Charles McNeil FRCPE FRCP RSE (21 September 1881 – 27 April 1964) was a physician specialising in paediatrics, in particular

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paediatrics. He was a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of both

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and Edinburgh, and was President of the

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from 1940-1943.

Life

McNeil studied medicine at Edinburgh University, graduating M.B. in 1905. At the outset of

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, he was commissioned as a Major in the

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attached to the Scottish Branch of the British Red Cross Society, and from 1915-1918 was in command of the military hospital at

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. 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

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. His proposers were James Watt, Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, Sir David Wilkie and

Arthur Logan Turner Arthur Logan Turner FRCSEd FRSE LLD (4 May 1865 – 6 June 1939) was a Scottish surgeon, who specialised in diseases of ear, nose and throat (ENT) and was one of the first surgeons to work at the purpose-built ENT Pavilion at the Royal Infirmar ...

. He resigned from the Society in 1948. In 1946, he was elected to the Aesculapian Club of Edinburgh.

Family

In 1919, Charles McNeil married Alice Hill Workman, daughter of Thomas Workman, a company director. They did not have any children.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:McNeil, Charles 1881 births 1964 deaths British paediatricians Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh 20th-century Scottish medical doctors