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Albert Charles Butler Smythe
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 1/August/1882
Date of Fellowship admission: 2/February/1892
Albert Charles Butler-Smythe was born in Dublin in 1852. His father, William Smythe, was a naval officer, and his maternal grandfather, Charles Butler, was a medical practitioner. He studied in Dublin and Edinburgh and became a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1876, a Member in 1882, and a Fellow in 1892. He held several hospital appointments, including Surgeon to the St George Hanover Square Dispensary, the Grosvenor Hospital for Women and Children, and the Samaritan Free Hospital for Women and Children, where he worked for over fifty years and served on the management committee. He published articles on obstetrics and gynaecology in The Lancet and other medical journals. He received an MBE in the 1918 Birthday Honours and died in 1936.
Other Information
Also recorded as Albert Charles Butler Smyth.
Year of medical qualification
1876
Type of medical qualification
Licentiate Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
Fellowship
The main qualification issued by the College, awarded regularly since the College’s foundation. This qualification was granted based on demonstrated breadth of experience and did not require an individual to pass a certain examination.