Regius Professor Of Anatomy, Glasgow
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{{Use British English, date=October 2017 The Regius Chair of Anatomy is a
Regius professorship A Regius Professor is a university professor who has, or originally had, royal patronage or appointment. They are a unique feature of academia in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The first Regius Professorship was in the field of medicine, and f ...
at the
University of Glasgow The University of Glasgow (abbreviated as ''Glas.'' in Post-nominal letters, post-nominals; ) is a Public university, public research university in Glasgow, Scotland. Founded by papal bull in , it is the List of oldest universities in continuous ...
in Scotland. Founded in 1718 as the Regius Chair of Anatomy and Botany the province of the chair was restricted to
anatomy Anatomy () is the branch of morphology concerned with the study of the internal structure of organisms and their parts. Anatomy is a branch of natural science that deals with the structural organization of living things. It is an old scien ...
in 1818 when the Regius Chair of Botany was founded.


Regius Professors of Anatomy and Botany/Regius Professors of Anatomy

* Thomas Brisbane, MD (1720) * Robert Hamilton, MD (1742) *
Joseph Black Joseph Black (16 April 1728 – 6 December 1799) was a British 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 Glasgow ...
, MD (1756), Later Professor of the Practice of Medicine * Thomas Hamilton, MD (1757) * William Hamilton, MD (1781) * James Jeffray, MD (1790) * Allen Thomson, MA MD LLD DCL FRS (1848) * John Cleland, MA MD FRS (1877) *
Thomas Hastie Bryce Prof Thomas Hastie Bryce LLD FRS FSA FRSE (20 October 1862 – 16 May 1946) was a Scottish anatomist, medical author and archaeologist. He was Regius Professor of Anatomy at the University of Glasgow 1909 to 1935 and also Curator of the Hunteri ...
, MA MD FRS (1909) * Duncan MacCallum Blair, MB DSc (1935-1944) * William James Hamilton, MD DSc (1946) * George McCreath Wyburn, MB ChB DSc (1948) * Raymond John Scothorne, BSc MD FRSE (1973-1990)


References

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


See also

* List of Professorships at the University of Glasgow Medical education in Scotland
Anatomy Anatomy () is the branch of morphology concerned with the study of the internal structure of organisms and their parts. Anatomy is a branch of natural science that deals with the structural organization of living things. It is an old scien ...
Professorships in medicine 1718 establishments in Scotland
Anatomy Anatomy () is the branch of morphology concerned with the study of the internal structure of organisms and their parts. Anatomy is a branch of natural science that deals with the structural organization of living things. It is an old scien ...
Anatomists