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Ashley Watson Mackintosh
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 4/February/1913
Date of Fellowship admission: 18/July/1916
Ashley Watson Mackintosh was born in 1868. He graduated MD from the University of Aberdeen in 1896, having previously won the Struthers Medal and Prize in Anatomy. He worked as Clinical Assistant at the National Hospital for Epilepsy and Paralysis before returning to Aberdeen in 1914 as Regius Professor of Medicine. Mackintosh became a Member of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1913 and was elected a Fellow in 1916. He authored the papers 'The Lateral Limiting Layer of the Spinal Cord' (1897), 'Distribution of Certain Sensory Spinal Roots' (1898), and 'Notes on Cerebral Localisation' (1905). He was knighted in 1937 and died the same year.
Year of medical qualification
1896
Type of medical qualification
MD
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.