Dr Robert Bowes Malcolm

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FRCPE (25 August 1807 – 6 June 1894) was a British physician. He was President of the Harveian Society 1856/7 and President of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh. He founded the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society. In an unusual secondary role he was official physician to Fettes College.

Life

He was born on 25 August 1807 the eldest son of Major John Malcolm of the

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. Early years were spent at

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in County Durham. He studied medicine at the

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gaining his doctorate (MD) in 1831. In 1840 he was elected a Fellow of the

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. In 1841 he was elected a member of the Aesculapian Club. In 1843 Malcolm was elected a member of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh and served as President in 1856. He was elected a Fellow of the

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in 1857. His proposer was William Swan. He died on at home, 10 Roseberry Crescent in Edinburgh's West End on 6 June 1894. He was buried on 9 June in the small central southern sections of

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, facing the main southern path.

Family

In May 1832 he was married to Barbara Thatcher (1806–1880). She was the eldest daughter of Dr John Thatcher of 23 Elder Street in Edinburgh.Journal of the Asiatic Society of Edinburgh 1832 Their children included John Vicary Thatcher Malcolm. They also had three daughters, including Eleanor Bowes Malcolm (born 1835). The children were painted by Mary Ann Heaphy.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Malcolm, Robert Bowes 1807 births 1894 deaths Alumni of the University of Edinburgh 19th-century Scottish medical doctors Burials at the Dean Cemetery Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh List of Office Bearers of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh and Harveian Orations Former members of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh