The Regius Chair of

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and Therapeutics is considered the oldest

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. It was formed in 1989 from the merge of the Regius Chairs of the Practice of Medicine (founded in 1637) and of Materia Medica (founded in 1831). The chair has so far had two occupants, Professor John Reid, who was previously Regius Professor of Materia Medica and - since 2010 - Professor Anna Felicja Dominiczak, the first woman to have ever held the post.

Regius Professor of the Practice of Medicine

The Chair of the Practice of Medicine was founded in 1637 and, after a lapse, revived in 1712. It was endowed by Queen Anne in 1713, becoming the Regius Chair.

Practice of Medicine Professors

* Robert Mayne MA (1637–1646)

Practice of Medicine Regius Professors

* John Johnstoun MD (1714) *

William Cullen William Cullen FRS FRSE FRCPE FPSG (; 15 April 17105 February 1790) was a Scottish physician, chemist and agriculturalist, and professor at the Edinburgh Medical School. Cullen was a central figure in the Scottish Enlightenment: He was ...

MD (1751) * Robert Hamilton (1756) *

Joseph Black Joseph Black (16 April 1728 – 6 December 1799) was a Scottish physicist and chemist, known for his discoveries of magnesium, latent heat, specific heat, and carbon dioxide. He was Professor of Anatomy and Chemistry at the University of Glas ...

MD (1757) * Alexander Stevenson MD (1766) *

Thomas Charles Hope Thomas Charles Hope (21 July 1766 – 13 June 1844) was a British physician, chemist and lecturer. He proved the existence of the element strontium, and gave his name to Hope's Experiment, which shows that water reaches its maximum density at ...

MD FRS (1789) * Robert Freer

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MA MD (1796) * Charles Badham MA MD FRS (1827) * William Thomson MD (1841) * John MacFarlane (1852) * Sir

William Tennant Gairdner Sir William Tennant Gairdner (8 November 1824 – 28 June 1907) was a Scottish Professor of Medicine in the University of Glasgow. Early life William Tennant Gardiner was born in Edinburgh, the son of physician John Gairdner and his wife, ...

KCB MD LLD FRS (1862) * Sir Thomas McCall Anderson MD (1900) *

Samson Gemmell Samson Gemmell FRFPS (1848 – 2 April 1913) was a Scottish paediatrician who became Regius Professor of Practice of Medicine at the University of Glasgow. Life Gemmell was born in Catrine in 1848 and was educated at Glasgow High School. He ...

(1908) *

Thomas Kirkpatrick Monro Thomas Kirkpatrick Monro (1865 – 10 January 1958) was Regius Professor of Medicine and Therapeutics at the University of Glasgow. He was director of Glasgow Royal Maternity and Women's Hospital, professor of medicine and dean of the Medical F ...

MA MD LLD (1913) * Sir

John William McNee Sir John William McNee FRSE DSO (1887-1984) was a 20th century British pathologist and bacteriologist. Life He was born on 17 December 1887 in Mount Vernon, Glasgow, Mount Vernon in north Lanarkshire (now part of Glasgow the only son of John ...

DSO MD DSc LLD (1936) * Sir

Edward Johnson Wayne Sir Edward Johnson Wayne (3 June 1902 – 19 August 1990) was an English physician, biochemist, thyroidologist, and professor of medicine. Biography Wayne attended Leeds Central High School from 1914 to 1920 and then matriculated at the Univers ...

MSc MD PhD (1953) * Graham Malcolm Wilson MD DSc (1967) *

Professor Sir Abraham Goldberg Sir Abraham Goldberg (7 December 1923 – 1 September 2007) was a British physician who was a Regius Professor of the Practice of Medicine at the University of Glasgow. He was educated at George Heriot's School in Edinburgh and the Universi ...

KB MD DSc FRCP FRSE (1978–1989)

Regius Professor of Materia Medica

The Regius Chair of Materia Medica was founded in 1831 by King William IV from the lectureship in Materia Medica, instituted in 1766.

Materia Medica Regius Professors

* Richard Millar (1831) * John Couper (1833) *

John Black Cowan John Black Cowan (1828-1896) was Regius Professor of Materia Medica at the University of Glasgow. References External links Academics of the University of Glasgow 1828 births 1896 deaths {{Scotland-med-bio-stub ...

(1865) *

Matthew Charteris Matthew Charteris MD FRSE LRCSE (1840 – July 1897). He was a Scottish physician and academic who was the Regius Professor of Materia Medica at the University of Glasgow. He was also the author of the standard medical textbook the ''Practice ...

(1880) * Ralph Stockman (1897) * Noah Morris (1937 * Stanley Alstead (1948) *

(1970) * John Low Reid (1978)

Medicine and Therapeutics Regius Professors

* John Low Reid BD DM FRCP FRSE FMedSci (1989–2010) * Anna Felicja Dominiczak, OBE, FRCP, FRSE, FAHA, FMedSci (2010-)

References

*''Who, What and Where: The History and Constitution of the University of Glasgow'', compiled by Michael Moss, Moira Rankin and Lesley Richmond.
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